UEA1 and SLATE.FONT by Styrofoam Iguana Software programmed by Glyn Thomas Gowing STYROFOAM IGUANA SOFTWARE: Products from minds that are not mearly twisted, but actually sprained! You should be reading this first, as the other file will not work unless you go to NotePad or any other programme that lets you select your fonts. ****************************************************************************** * * * C O M I N G S O O N T O A B B S * * * * N E A R Y O U ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! * * * * S I G N F O N T 8 and * * * * A S L 1 Keymap! * * * * see the file Signfont.txt for info....... * * * ****************************************************************************** To install, simply execute the script UEAINSTALL from the CLI. (sorry, i never did get the hang of using a mouse for much of anything) UEA1: UEA1 is a reworked keymap that will allow one to type the characters in Slate.font which are needed for the languages Esperanto and Cymraeg (Welsh). Why? Well, I needed them for myself, and I felt that if I could use this stuff, there may be other people who could use it too, so I put it out in the public domain. How? The keymap was created with KeyMapEd by Tim Friest, after much frustration with NEWCON:, which for some strange reason will not print out any characters in the range of $80-$9F. (see below) How does it work? Use it like any other keymap (specifically USA1), HOWEVER you cannot get any of the French characters save Ç, as I had to overwrite them for my Esperanto and Welsh characters. (that's ok, though. Welsh is far prettier than French, and Esperanto is spoken by MANY more people than either French or Welsh). SLATE.FONT Why? I needed it, as I use both Welsh (the language of my own people) and Esperanto (la internacia lingvo/the international language) extensively in my own personal life, and I got tired of having the best computer made (yea team AMIGA!) and having to use a regular typewriter to type out my letters and other things to people, because I could not get Amy to coöperate with me. How? FED. It is on the Extras disk on just about every release of AmigaDos since 1.1. I just took Topaz/8 and hacked it a bit. I had to use the character range from $C0-$CF and $E0-$EF for my characters, as NEWCON: will not allow me to use $80-$9f, as I intended originally, to avoid hacking up the French characters. How does it work? Just specify it anywhere you can specify a font. It is a FIXED-WIDTH font (so it will even work with DP-II, etc.) and it is an 8 point font, so when I get the programme, I will replace TOPAZ on my KickStart disks with SLATE. Why SLATE? Slate is one of the major mining products of Wales, along with coal. I will make a modification of one of the proportional fonts and call it COAL later. I just did this today, so give me time, ok? What is Esperanto? Esperanto is a language created in 1887 by a Polish linguist and physician named Ludovic Zammenhoff. It was created to be an international SECOND language. We are not trying to eliminate national languages, or replace them, but simply trying to help people communicate with eachother. Esperanto has only 16 rules of grammar (I kid you not--see the NotePad file Esperanto.Primer and see for yourself) and there are NO EXCEPTIONS to any rule--EVER! Esperanto is simply an easy to learn, yet complete language. It is possiable to say things and express concepts in Esperanto that are very difficult if one could at all express them in English. It is estimated that over 15 Million people in the world speak Esperanto. In almost every country. There are many magazines and technical journals published in Esperanto. For more information contact: In the UK: The British Esperanto Association 140 Holland Park Avenue London, W11 4UF (01) 727.7821 In Canada: The Canadian Esperanto Association C.P. 126 Succursale Beaubien Montréal, Qué. H2G 3C8 In the USA: Esperanto League for North America P.O. Box 1129 El Cerrito, CA 94530 (415) 653-0998 In the rest of the world: Universal Esperanto Association Nieuwe Binnenweg 176 3015 BJ Rotterdam The Netherlands All of these addresses have personnel that can answer questions in English. What about Welsh? The Welsh language is still spoken in Wales, despite many attempts by past monarchs of England to eliminate it. It is a Celtic language, related to Cornish, Irish, Scotts Gaelic, Manx, and Breton; along with older Brithonic languages. For more information for those of you who would like to learn this beautiful language (ok, ok, my grandfather came over in a boat from Wales, so I'm biased, so?), write to: Mr. Basil Davies c/o Yr Adran Ieithoedd a Chelfyddydau Politechnig Cymru Pontypridd, Morgannwg Ganol CF37 1DL CYMRU (Wales), UK (0443) 480.480 (to dial from the US, dial: 011 44 443 480480 international UK Pontypridd The Politechnic) (note that you drop the 0 in the city code when dialing from overseas) To contact me: via Royal Snail or US Snail: Glyn Thomas Gowing Styrofoam Iguana Software 3500 Pelham Rd #185A Greenville, SC. 29615-4127 (803) 458-9672 (I have a machine, leave a message) via CompuServe: 73207,747