Thai BitmapFont for the Amiga workstation.
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            Rev.1 released 19. Sep. 1996 by Flemming Steffensen.
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Introduction
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   This is the first Thai-font available on the Amiga, that I know of.
   Or actualy, there exists one, called Bangkok.font, but it uses some
   wierd encoding, that seems to map the wanted keys directly onto
   the keyboard. Thus any other keymap then the US1 will render it
   useless. (Also text written using Bangkok.font can _only_ be used
   with that font, and thus can't be used for WWW-browsers or EMails.)

   This pack features one fontset, size 36. Ie. the total height is 36
   pixels, but only about 14 are used for normal latin charecters.

   The width of the font is proportional.

   The fontset is build using the TIS-620 standard. Futher info is
   available on my homepage.



Recommandation
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   When using this fontset, I'll reccomand that you use the Thai-keymap
   files I've made. They are available from text/font and is called
   Thai-keymaps.lha

   Most editors on the Amiga has great difficulties using proportional
   fonts, and thay have even more difficulties using proportional fonts
   that have negative kernings on some of the chars.

   I've found that programs that uses the textfield.gadget has no problems
   using this kind of fonts.
   IntuiNews for the Universal Message System (UMS) is one of these
   programs.

   If you want to use the font in the shell - which dosn't like proportional
   fonts - select the font like this:   (The font must be placed in Fonts:)

      Setfont fonts:Fongnam+.font 36 prop

   To select the keymap:

      SetKeyboard <name of keymap thats placed in devs:keymaps>



BUGS
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   The following bugs are probably pressent:

      *  None that I know of.


BUGS I CAN'T FIX
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   These bugs are in the opperativsystem, and has nothing to do with
   the font.

      *  Editors, textviewer and the Shell can't handle proportional
         fonts correcly.

      *  The system dosn't support Kerning-pairs.


Revision-history.
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Rev.1  19.Sep. 1996.
   First release.



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