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Subject:      Truetype APL font
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no. 6894580 filed 17.38.48  tue 12 jan 1993
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to   uclapl
subj Truetype APL font
expy 17.38.00  11 feb 1993

@transferred from ipsalab  no. 141912 filed 17.38.46  tue 12 jan 1993

Subject: Truetype APL font

Iverson Software Inc., 33 Major Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2K9
(416-925-6096, fax 416-488-7559) has a Truetype font called ISIAPL. This font
is in mainframe SAPL quadav sequence, which may or may not meet your needs - it
is quite different from the more PC-popular STSC convention.

This font is not available standalone, but may be had for $30 CDN as part of
the APLIWIN beta, which is a pretty handy product in its own right. It has a
built in Windows API interface and native Dos file manipulation quad functions.
It is a close relative of APLI386, though that product's aux proc orientation
has disappeared (at least temporarily) in favor of Windows functionality. This
is a real live Windows APL.

It's dead trivial to whip up a translate table and APLIWIN functions that read
or write DOS files containing STSC-style APL characters, and various people
(myself included) have done that. Such functions are not presently bundled with
the product, however.

I personally find the APL and the font incredibly useful, though as a tech
support heavy for the SHARP APL mainframe product I have a somewhat skewed
perspective since APLI is extremely compatible with the stuff I use and sell.
The keyboard takes a bit of getting used to, especially if one uses other APL's
a lot - some of the traditional union keyboard strokes have mystic meanings in
Windows, so the keyboard feels a bit weird to union keyboard fans.
/Gary Dennis, Reuters APL Software Division Tech Support Group


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