INF: Italics (and Other Fonts) on a Monochrome Monitor

ID Number: Q11274

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MS-DOS

Summary:

Some Microsoft products (such as Microsoft Word), have text

represented in italics on a monochrome monitor without a graphics

adapter. It is possible to get italics on the monitor using Microsoft

C or Macro Assembler.

More Information:

These products create the italics font internally, in graphics mode

(regardless of whether or not you have a monochrome monitor or color

monitor attached), then it is mapped into the BIOS graphics ASCII

table and presented on the screen.

To get italics on the screen, you must first create this graphics font

(or purchase a library of fonts from a software vendor), then map the

graphics font to the BIOS graphics font table.

It is possible to incorporate many desired fonts into your application

by writing your application to interface with Microsoft Windows.

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