MSFonts

MSFonts

MSFonts(PRINTER), MSFonts

parameters: PRINTER

Parameters

Parameters	Position	Description
Stack(in)		]
		...
		[
		Integer
Stack(Out)		String

The number on the stack indicates the number of the font to be set. The array describes the properties of the new font. The system first tries to find exactly the specified font. If this does not work, a font as similar as possible is set. The result string describes the result font.

Attention!
Entries 0-3 in the font table of this machine are used as default fonts by the InstantView widgets. For example, the font for all buttons in the machine can be changed at once. At the same time, this should be taken into account when changing the fonts. It is recommended to use the entries 10-20 of the font table for specific fonts that are only needed in a few places.

Without parameters, the same font description is used for the screen and printer, with the parameter only for the printer. Since printers may support different fonts than the screen, it is possible that the printout may differ from the screen display.

The font description can contain the following components, which can be combined in any way:

• Font name: String
• Size: Integer in PicaPoint
• BOLD: constant that produces a bold font
• ITALIC: constant that creates an italic font
• ORIENTATION degrees: rotation angle in degrees, 0 degrees: from left to right, 90 degrees: top to bottom

• Flag	Code page	Description
  VIEW_CHARTSET	?1252
  BALTIC_CHARSET	1257	Baltic languages
  CHINESEBIG5_CHARSET	950	Chinese (Taiwan)
  DEFAULT_CHARSET	?1252
  EASTEUROPE_CHARSET	1250	Eastern European languages (currently not supported)
  GB2312_CHARSET	936	Simplified Chinese (PR China)
  GREEK_CHARSET	1253	Greek
  HANGUL_CHARSET	949	Korean
  MAC_CHARSET	?
  OEM_CHARSET	?437	ASCII with graphic symbols
  RUSSIAN_CHARSET	1251	Russian
  SHIFTJIS_CHARSET	932	Japanese
  SYMBOL_CHARSET	?	Symbol Character set
  TURKISH_CHARSET	1254	Turkish
  VIETNAMESE_CHARSET	1258	Vietnamese
  JOHAB_CHARSET	1361	Korean
  ARABIC_CHARSET	1256	Arabic
  HEBREW_CHARSET	1255	Hebrew

If the font name is omitted, the Windows font is selected as the underlying font. This is the font "Segoe UI" as of Windows Vista. A font size is also bound to this Windows font, which is determined by Windows. (Also depends on settings in the control panel). If no font is set with MSFonts, then this font is also set for all fonts 0-20. The group font (Font 2) is slightly larger by default from Windows 8 onwards due to a redesign of the Windows interface. This behaviour can be overridden by manually overwriting font 2 with an empty font as follows 2 [] MSFonts

Examples

3 [ "Arial" 8 BOLD ] MSFonts	sets font 3 to Arial Bold 8 pt for screen and printer
1 [ ITALIC ] MSFonts	sets font 1 for screen and printer to the Windows font in italics
7 [ ] MSFonts	sets font 7 to the default Windows font
0 [ "Courier New" 20 ITALIC ] MSFonts	sets font 0 for screen and printer to Courier New Italic, 20pt
1 [ "Arial" 12 ORIENTATION 90 ] MSFonts(PRINTER)	sets font 1 for the printer to Arial 12pt rotated by 90 degrees
2 [ "Garamond" 16 BOLD ITALIC ] MSFonts	sets Font 2 for screen and printer to Garamond Bold Italic 16pt
0 [ "Times New Roman" 16 RUSSIAN_CHARSET ] MsFonts	sets font for output with Cyrillic characters