Fonts in the Oberon subsystem

[peasthope]

A session in the Oberon subsystem leaves this information in the parent terminal.
  ...
Autostart: executing Oberon.Call System.Init Oberon ~
{P cpuid= 0, pid= 54 ETH Oberon / LinuxAos (rev.5406)}
Missing: Courier10.Scn.Fnt
Missing: Courier8.Scn.Fnt
Missing: Oberon10.Md6.Fnt
{P cpuid= 0, pid= 55 Oberon started}
Missing: Oberon12b.Md6.Fnt
Missing: Oberon12.Md6.Fnt
Missing: Courier10.Md6.Fnt
  ...

What is involved in adding or installing those fonts?

Thanks,                ... Peter E.

[fld]

Hi Peter

In revision 5165 of UnixAos most Oberon screen fonts got replaced
by TrueType fonts for better scalability. If you need the old screen fonts
nonetheless you can copy them over from an earlier release or from
the ETH repository.

BTW. You use the old procedure to start the Oberon subsystem which
contains a race condition. In the A2 menu
     Oberon.Call System.Init Oberon ~
got replaced by

[peasthope]

got replaced by
  [Oberon.Start Oberon 0x0 ~]

OK, thanks.  In Configuration.XML, Autostart section, I replaced

Code:

... OberonDisplay.Install ...
... Oberon.Call System.Init Oberon ~

with

Code:

<Setting name="Start an Oberon process" value="Oberon.Start Oberon 1260x820 0 12 ~"/>

On this system that leaves the A2 menu exposed.

In revision 5165 of UnixAos most Oberon screen fonts got replaced
by TrueType fonts for better scalability. If you need the old screen fonts ...

I'll happily use TTF and this confirms that Courier is available.

peter@dalton:/usr/aos/fonts$ ls Cour*
Courier_bd.ttf  Courier_bi.ttf  Courier_i.ttf  Courier.ttf

/usr/aos/system/OType.Text explains OTFonts.Make to build fonts for later use and OTFonts.Install to build on demand.  

OTFonts.Make /usr/aos/fonts/Courier.ttf Courier 8 10 Scn Pr3 ~

made four fonts in the working directory which I copied to /usr/aos/fonts/.

peter@dalton:/usr/aos/fonts$ ls -l Cour*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   9653 Nov  1 08:12 Courier10.Pr3.Fnt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2377 Nov  1 08:12 Courier10.Scn.Fnt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   6655 Nov  1 08:12 Courier8.Pr3.Fnt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2100 Nov  1 08:12 Courier8.Scn.Fnt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin  311508 Feb 15  2013 Courier_bd.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin  234788 Feb 15  2013 Courier_bi.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin  244156 Feb 15  2013 Courier_i.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin  302688 Feb 15  2013 Courier.ttf

Then "Script.ChangeFont /usr/aos/fonts/Courier8" works as does "Script.ChangeFont Courier8" in ETHNO.  As suggested in documentation, this text is rougher than text from a primary bitmap font.

I've also put OTFonts.Install in Oberon.Text, InitCommands to try dynamic font building.  Neither "Script.ChangeFont Courier12" nor "Script.ChangeFont Courier12.Scn.Fnt" works.  Will set it aside until another idea turns up.

Thanks for your work and help,              ... Peter E.