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FONTS.FAQ                   Doc. Rev. 1.01                 March 11th, 1999
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This is just a quick file to point out a few questions that might
get asked.  I'll add more as they come in.

1) "The text the program outputs is vertical, but I want it to be
    horizontal.  How do I do that?"

- At this point, I'm afraid you can't, but there is another program that
  can.  FABS was created to be a big banner program, in the style of old
  programs like PrintShop, with vertical output that could be printed on
  fanfold paper.  In the next release of the program (if/whenever that is)
  I may add horizontal output as it has been the most asked about feature.
  In the meantime, I recommend you check out FIGLET, which was one of the
  inspirations for FABS.  It has been around longer, has a huge font base,
  and produces horizontal output.  You can check it out at
  http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/users/chai/figlet.html

2) "I created a hollow font (spaces in the middle of the letters), but
    when I use it in overlap mode, the under letters show through the
    hollow parts, even though transparent mode wasn't enabled.
    How do I fix this?"

- The program can not discern what is inside or outside a letter by
  itself, so if it sees a blank spot when it is adding the next letter,
  it treats it as fair game to fill.  However, it treats fill characters
  differently, and can recognize a blank fill character.  So, if you want
  to create a hollow font with spaces that characters won't show through,
  you must use a fill character where you want spaces, and then specify
  the fill character as a space in the font header.


3) "What is the format for the header information of the fonts?"

- See the BLANK.BAN or FontUtil.txt files; they both have an explanation.


4) "I created a font, but all the letters are coming out in 
    uppercase (lowercase); what's going on?"

- Check the font header; it sounds like the option to convert case is 
  enabled.



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