Subj : Synchronet C64 font questions
To   : Alpha
From : Digital Man
Date : Sat Feb 25 2023 17:37:48

  Re: Synchronet C64 font questions
  By: Alpha to Digital Man on Sat Feb 25 2023 04:01 pm

 > > By default, Synchronet enables the PETSCII upper/lower character set upon
 > > connection by a PETSCII terminal and after displaying any PETSCII (.seq)
 > > file. Your display/menu files are free to change to the PETSCII
 > > upper/graphics character by sending the character 142, as is the standard
 > > practice, but Synchronet will always change the character set back to
 > > upper/lower after the displaly file has been sent (so you may want to
 > > insert a pause/hit-a-key prompt at the end of your PETSCII-graphics
 > > files).
 >
 > OK, this makes sense! For general display of art, sending PAUSE will do the
 > trick. For menu art, sounds like I should avoid UPPER only characters,
 > because they will switch to upper/lower after display...

Yeah. Too many things (e.g. prompts) utilize lowercase characters for the BBS to just leave the terminal in that charset mode. It's conceivable that the BBS could just convert all output chars to uppercase only and then you could have your menus use the graphic charset, but that's not how it works today and there's no option to do that. An all uppercase PETSCII BBS might be more "retro" or "period-accurate" however, so it's not a terrible idea.
-- 
                                            digital man (rob)

Rush quote #8:
One likes to believe in the freedom of music...
Norco, CA WX: 41.2øF, 97.0% humidity, 2 mph NW wind, 0.58 inches rain/24hrs
--- SBBSecho 3.20-Linux
 * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)

.