#PageStream Output
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I thought of that, Bill, but I think the problem is that PageStream may
need to look at the two (or more) different disks during a screen update or
a print operation. If it knows that all fonts are to be found in (say)
PSFONTS:, and you have in fact loaded or assigned a mounted disk as
PSFONTS:, then it can't prompt you for anything new when a font is not
found there – all it knows is that PSFONTS: doesn't contain the required
screen or printer font. Come back to me if this doesn't make sense. What
is needed here is a search path capability, not just a reassignment (I
think!).
I think that you are right and I missunderstood the problem. If the fonts
are handled in the same fashion as Amiga screen fonts (and they should be)
then just using an unimplemented (as far as I know) feature already built
into the system would handle the problem. Since the font header files are
pretty small (usually under 1K) and have the ability to specify the
location of the fonts themselves then there would be no requirement to have
a multiple PSFONTS: assignment. Of course this is contigent upon the
ability to access the font without necessarily having to use it for screen
display. I may well be further displaying my ignorance of the whole problem
but what the heck….. maybe I'll learn something.