From:	"doug" <deleveld AT dds DOT nl>
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Subject:	Announce: AllegTTF version 1.8 available
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Announce: AllegTTF version 1.8 available

What is ALLEGTTF

ALLEGTTF is a collection of functions to produce anti-aliased text 
output and TTF (True Type Font) loader, a GRX font loader and a bitmap 
font loader for use with Allegro and DJGPP.   Antialiased text means 
that fonts have 'soft' edges and blend into their backgrounds smoothly.  
Antialiased fonts are useful because the look a lot better than 
non-antialiased fonts, expecially at low resolutions/point sizes.

Version 1.8 is some added functionality bug fixes and Linux compatibility 
over 1.7.

---Request for help---
ALLEGTTF was originally designed for use with Allegro and DOS.  Now that 
Allegro supports other platforms (Linux, Windows, etc), I would like to 
get ALLEGTTF working for all the platforms that Allegro supports.  Dan 
Bogdanov has already sent me some changes to get ALLEGTTF to work with 
Allegro/Linux however the Windows support for ALLEGTTF is still lacking.
I have done most of what I think needs to be done, but I am having 
problems accessing the _textmode variable in the Allegro DLL.  I know 
almost nothing about Windows programming, so I cannot do it all myself.  
If you know some basics about Windows programming and want to contribute 
to ALLEGTTF, please mail me and we can get ALLEGTTF wiorking for Windows 
platforms. 

You can find a link to it and some other stuff at:

http://huizen.dds.nl/~deleveld/index.htm

Doug Eleveld

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