Thanks for the tip, Marty
Both the Terminal and Fixedsys fonts are available on my W95 machine.
Neither appears to have a truly slashed zero, but both have a distinctive
dot in the center of the ring which should keep me from confusing the zero
and the oh.
Jerry W4UK
At 12:57 PM 12/13/00 -0600, you wrote:
>
>At 01:39 PM 12/13/00 -0500, W0AH@aol.com wrote:
>>In a message dated 12/13/00 10:51:46 AM Mountain Standard Time,
>>martyt@pobox.com writes:
>>
>><< Use the FixedSys font. It is a standard Windows font and has slashed
>>zeros.
>> You can't get a slashed zero from fonts that don't already have it - >>
>>
>>Windows 98 gives me a choice of 122 different fonts. FixedSys is not one of
>>them. Does it have another name? K0RI and I mistakenly typed oh instead of
>>zero a few times during the ARRLTen contest and it sure would make things
>>easier to be able to see the difference in the log window.
>>Doug W0AH
>
>Fixedsys sure as heck ought to be there - it's been a standard Windows font
>since Windows 3.1 (probably 2.11 also!) It's not a TrueType font, so if
>you're looking for it with some kind of font browser, you might not see it.
>But it'll be there unless you've done something to explicitly remove it.
>
>Start WriteLog and go to the Setup | Entry Window Font... menu item and in
>the list of fonts, you should see Fixedsys - on my machine it's between
>"Courier10 BT" and "LettrGoth12 BT" - my machine is Win98 SE with nothing
>fancy installed. The only fonts listed there are the fixed-width fonts on
>your system. If you absolutely can't find Fixedsys, you can also use
>Terminal - it has slashed zeroes also.
>
>-Marty NW0L
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