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+Dina Programming Font
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+=====================
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+Copyright (c) 2005-2013 Joergen Ibsen
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+<http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Jibz/Dina/>
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+About
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+-----
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+
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+Dina is a monospace bitmap font, primarily aimed at programmers. It is
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+relatively compact to allow a lot of code on screen, while (hopefully) clear
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+enough to remain readable even at high resolutions.
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+I made this font after having tried all the free programming fonts I could
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+find. Somehow there was some detail in each of them that meant I could not
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+work with them in the long run.
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+The closest to perfect I found was the Proggy font, so I started building
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+Dina using Proggy as the base, and with inspiration from Tobi, Fixedsys and
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+some old DOS fonts I used to love.
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+Some of the design goals were:
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+ - Monospaced
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+ - Should be easy to distinguish between `j i l 1 I`
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+ - Should be easy to distinguish between `o O 0`
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+ - Operators should line up horizontally `- + * =`
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+ - Brackets should line up horizontally and vertically `< ( { [ ] } ) >`
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+ - Punctuation should be clear `., :; ' "`
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+ - Symbols used in programming languages should look right `& @ % $ #`
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+ - No other characters that look too similar `gqy z2Z s5S 8B CG6 DO uv`
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+ - Still has to be pleasant to read passages of text
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+Dina is the result of many hours of tweaking and testing, and I am quite
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+happy with it now.
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+Font Format
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+-----------
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+Dina is a monospace bitmap font in Windows FON file format (Windows-1252 /
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+ISO-8859-1 encoding). It is available as:
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+ - 6pt regular
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+ - 8pt regular, bold, italic, bold italic
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+ - 9pt regular, bold, italic, bold italic
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+ - 10pt regular, bold, italic, bold italic
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+
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+`DinaR.fon` contains the regular fonts, `DinaB.fon` contains bold,
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+`DinaI.fon` italic, and `DinaZ.fon` bold italic.
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+All styles are the same width for proper alignment.
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+Depending on your monitor size and type, the 8pt or 9pt versions should be
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+preferable up to at least 1280x1024 resolution. The 10pt version may be an
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+option at higher resolutions.
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+BDF versions of the fonts are included for easier conversion to formats
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+usable on Linux and Mac. The point sizes may be slightly different on
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+other operating systems. Please check the [forum][] for updates on
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+conversions.
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+
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+[forum]: http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?board=62.0
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+
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+Installing on Windows
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+---------------------
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+If you have a previous version of Dina installed, it is a good idea to remove
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+that before installing a new version. Close all open programs that use the
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+Dina font before removing it.
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+On recent Windows versions, removing a font is usually done by going into
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+Control Panel, Appearance and Personalization, Fonts, finding the font in
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+question, right-clicking it and choosing Delete. On older Windows versions,
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+go to `C:\Windows\Fonts`, right-click the font and choose Delete.
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+
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+Installing a font on recent Windows versions, can be done by right-clicking
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+the `.fon` files and choosing Install. On older versions, go into Control
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+Panel, Appearance and Personalization, Fonts, and choose Install New Font
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+from the File menu.
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+
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+Microsoft has more detailed instructions on installing and removing fonts
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+for [Windows XP][winxp], [Windows Vista][winvista] and [Windows 7][win7].
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+There is an issue on some Windows versions, where the 10pt entry disappears
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+from the font selection dialog. If this is the case, you can enter a size of
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+10 manually in the editbox.
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+
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+[winxp]: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314960
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+[winvista]: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/install-or-uninstall-fonts
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+[win7]: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/install-or-delete-fonts
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+
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+
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+Acknowledgements
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+----------------
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+
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+A big thanks to Tristan Grimmer for his excellent Proggy fonts.
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+Thanks to mouser for testing.
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+Thanks to Jamie Burns and bpcw001 for contributing conversions.
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+
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+
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+License
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+-------
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+
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+Copyright (c) 2005-2013 Joergen Ibsen
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+
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+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
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+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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+in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
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+to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
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+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
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+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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+
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+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
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+all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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+
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+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
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+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
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+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
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+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
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+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
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+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
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+THE SOFTWARE.
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