Character sets

Character constants can be used to change the font style in TEXT (alphasign.text.Text) and STRING (alphasign.string.String) files.

Character sets

The following character set constants are defined:

• FIVE_HIGH_STD
• FIVE_STROKE
• SEVEN_HIGH_STD
• SEVEN_STROKE
• SEVEN_HIGH_FANCY
• TEN_HIGH_STD
• SEVEN_SHADOW
• FULL_HEIGHT_FANCY
• FULL_HEIGHT_STD
• SEVEN_SHADOW_FANCY
• FIVE_WIDE
• SEVEN_WIDE
• SEVEN_FANCY_WIDE
• WIDE_STROKE_FIVE

The following character sets are available only on Alpha 2.0 and 3.0 protocols:

• FIVE_HIGH_CUST
• SEVEN_HIGH_CUST
• TEN_HIGH_CUST
• FIFTEEN_HIGH_CUST

Character attributes

The following character attribute constants are defined:

• WIDE_ON
• WIDE_OFF
• DOUBLE_WIDE_ON
• DOUBLE_WIDE_OFF
• DOUBLE_HIGH_ON
• DOUBLE_HIGH_OFF
• TRUE_DESCENDERS_ON
• TRUE_DESCENDERS_OFF
• FIXED_WIDTH_ON
• FIXED_WIDTH_OFF
• FANCY_ON
• FANCY_OFF
• AUXILIARY_PORT_ON – Series 4000 & 7000 signs only.
• AUXILIARY_PORT_OFF
• SHADOW_CHARACTERS_ON – Betabrite model 1036 and AlphaPriemere 9000 signs only.
• SHADOW_CHARACTERS_OFF

Character spacing

The following character spacing constants are defined:

• PROPORTIONAL – default
• FIXED_WIDTH – fixed width left justified

Examples

Make a text file using the FIVE_WIDE charset:

msg = alphasign.Text("%sthis is wide" % alphasign.charsets.FIVE_WIDE,
                     label="A")