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Bitmap fonts

Last updated at 2:49 pm UTC on 16 January 2006

Squeak uses mainly bitmap fonts. A bitmap font is stored in an instance of the class Form and managed by the class StrikeFont.

Code set

The Macintosh codeset is used.(http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/Text/Text-516.html)
Fix for Latin-1 character set: http://www.is.titech.ac.jp/~ohshima/squeak/squeak-multilingual-e.html

How to ...

How to change the default font: Squeak FAQ
How to create new text fonts
How to edit existing bitmap fonts For example, to change the left-arrow character to an underline

Additional fonts

Cream font for Squeak http://home.netsurf.de/helge.horch/SqueakSharesSoar.html (was http://home.munich.netsurf.de/Helge.Horch/SqueakSharesSoar.html, but that could be dead any day now)
TeX Computer Modern Fonts file-in by Andrew C. Greenberg http://groups.yahoo.com/group/squeak/message/10426 (this message is no more available, deleted from the yahoo groups server).
BDF Fonts For Squeak - free X11 Bitmap Distribution Format fonts