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NAURTECH TERMINAL EMULATION & DATA COLLECTION WEB BROWSER FOR WINDOWS CE / WINDOWS MOBILE
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Font
This tab holds advanced font settings for enhanced readability and international language
character glyphs.
Windows Mobile Windows CE
Allow Proportional Fonts: Traditionally, only fixed pitch fonts have been used with
terminal emulation. This option, when enabled, will allow proportional fonts in the font
selection box. Some Asian language fonts are only available with proportional spacing.
Usually, the Asian fonts are “linked” to the Tahoma font, which is also proportional. To
display all characters, this box can be checked and the Tahoma font selected.
Proportional fonts can also be used to improve readability of the display if the host
application does not require column alignment of the screen (see Force Fixed Width
Characters).
Force Proportional Characters: This option is enabled to force the display to draw with
proportional spacing even when the selected font is fixed pitch. This setting may be
required when a proportional Asian font is linked to a fixed pitch font such as Courier New
and Courier New is the selected font. This setting overrides “Force Fixed Width
Characters”.
Force Fixed Width Characters: This option will force the display to draw proportional
fonts with a fixed width spacing. This can result in irregular displays where the narrow
characters (e.g., 'i') appear scrunched to the left of their "cell" and the wide characters
(e.g., 'm') to overlap their neighbors on the right. This setting is used to force a display
into traditional column alignment and may be needed with host applications that display
tables or character based graphics.
When forcing to fixed width, a "nominal" width must be computed for the font and it is
narrower than the widest characters. The next parameter can be used to spread out the
characters.