Paul Koning and Adam Baum made some TrueType versions of PLATO fonts. These are not necessary for pterm but their significance is discussed on the system in the notesfile =ptermdev, archive 01/26/2006, note #33, titled "standard font", dated 10/17/2006. The ones made of pixels were made by Paul, the other two by Adam.

Here they are as individual downloads:

PlatoAscii.ttf, PlatoMicro.ttf, platopixels.ttf, platopixelsbold.ttf

PLATO keyboards had lots of weird old keys. To reproduce these keys in Pterm, you can either use the Function keys (those keys with F1-12 along the top of modern keyboards), OR you can type control-first letter of the old PLATO key, OR alt-first letter of the old PLATO key.

For example, to use the PLATO 'back' key on cyber1, you could either use the 'F8' key, control-b, or alt-b.

Control Function Alternate PLATO Ctrl a F2 ALT a ANS Ctrl b F8 ALT b BACK Ctrl c F11 ALT c COPY Ctrl d F9 ALT d DATA Ctrl e F5 ALT e EDIT Ctrl f Sh-F4 ALT f FONT Ctrl h F6 ALT h HELP Ctrl l F7 ALT l LAB Ctrl m F4 ALT m MICRO ALT n NEXT Ctrl q F3 ALT q "square" or "access" ALT r ERASE Ctrl s F10 ALT s STOP Ctrl t Sh-F2 ALT t TERM Ctrl x DEL KP * multiply Ctrl g INS KP / divide Ctrl p PgUp PgUp SUPER Ctrl y PgDn PgDown SUB

Key PLATO Enter NEXT Backspace ERASE F6 HELP F7 LAB F8 BACK F9 DATA KP + + (+ key also works for unshifted +) KP - - (- key also works for unshifted -) KP left a (that's the left arrow PLATO key) KP right d KP up w KP down x CTRL KP - DELTA (also Sh KP -) CTRL KP + SIGMA (also Sh KP +) ALT KP Left assigment arrow

For applications that use the shifted digits as they appear on the PLATO keyboard for various purposes (for example, in the editor, shift-0 gets you to part 10 of the file), use control-digit. Control with any non-letter will give you whatever is on the PLATO keyboard in the shift position of that key. For example, control = is ).

Nearly all of these can be shifted (which is why + and - are accessible via the numeric keypad—that's how you can reach the shifted forms). TERM and FONT are the same shifted or not because those correspond to shifted keys (shifted ANS and MICRO respectively) on the PLATO keyboard. If you are new to PLATO, we suggest first learning F6 through F10, as these will cover the majority of keyboard conversion hassles. Maybe jot them down on a paper and put it next to your keyboard until you have them memorized.