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I'm certainly doing both of those things.  The entry for floodgate doesn't include this information.  Anyway, I now see a problem with my setup that I won't be able to fix until the next winter freeze 9 months from now.  There's a small plant on the square with the floodgate (how the hell does THAT grow there?), so I'll have to dig out the ice, tear up the floodgate, build a floor there or something, then reinstall the floodgate for the next thaw.  And to think...I'm just trying to drain a damn moat with a floodgate at the drain end and a floodgate at the fill end.  I totally understand how it's supposed to work, I just didn't expect a seedling to screw it up.

How can I easily tell if a floodgate is open or closed?  I don't see any difference when I look at them with {k}, and they don't seem to have a {q} menu. 

Uh, did you read my question?  I know about the scroll wheel, I know I'd like to change the typeface.

Is there anyone ELSE who can tell me how to change which typeface DF uses when TRUETYPE=YES is enabled?  Thanks in advance.

OK, I found it.  If I knew where to document this for future generations, I'd volunteer to do so.  In the DF/data/art directory there's a font file called font.ttf.  Back that file up, rename the font you want to use to font.ttf in that directory.

Sorry for the necropost, but:

I know how to zoom to adjust the size of the TrueType text, but I don't see anything in init.txt that would suggest how to change which typeface to use so I can enjoy the success the other people in this thread had.  Any thoughts?

The hotkeys could be changed from [b ] [d] [t] [v] [k] etc. to [B ] [D] [T] [V] [K] and those keys reserved for opening those interfaces, from the general mode, or from within another mode. Some people say the game should be given a mouse-oriented interface, but I like the keyboard interface. It is just that there are some obvious available improvements.

It wouldn't have to be only one or the other.  There are lots of keyboard hot-keys in regular Windows app interfaces.  There's not much reason that large chunks of the existing keyboard interface could survive while also allowing things like context-sensitive menus -- right-click on Urist McDwarf and have access to basically anything I might want to do with THAT dwarf...learn about him, nickname him, adjust labors, enlist him in the military, and on and on -- for people who like the mouse.

The game, it would seem, would benefit from a bit of controlled "opening."  It seems obvious to me that if the people responsible for Dwarf Therapist and Stonesense were given a little more access, they could offer some very interesting, much more modern alternatives to the current interface that a lot of people would like.

I'm sure I'm missing something simple, so sorry for the noise...

How can I see the personal inventory of a dwarf: what he's wearing, what he's wielding, what he's carrying from place to place at any given moment?  Thanks.

Can you point me to a link that explains how to take your worldgen data and import it into my game?  Thanks!

After hearing me drone on and on about Urist McWaterswallower and the rest of my stupid dorfs, my wife has expressed an interest in trying this out.  But she's already glazing over just a bit at picking an embark.  Does there exist such a thing as a noob-friendly starting location that someone else has already found and saved somehow...that can be downloaded for a sort of pre-made, relatively forgiving beginning?  Thanks.