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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: [UPDATE] Re: nice proportional fontRe: [UPDATE] Re: nice proportional font
From: Greg Haerr <greg_at_censoft.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 19:12:13 -0600 : * now digit '1' has the same width as the other digits : * now full iso-latin-1 (some accent characters are still ugly) : * fixed character descriptions This font is much nicer than the X11-5x8 that I initially included in the loadable fonts modifications. We could easily replace the existing firmware/X5x8.c with it. Here's a couple of comments if Daniel/Bjorn decide to go that way: 1. If the base font is not fixed-width, there's no easy way for the system to display fixed-width columns of stuff easily, if we ever have to. (I'm not sure this is that big a deal...) The best of all worlds would be to use this font as the default system loadable font, and to get a single-line width per character font, fixed-pitch, for the compiled-in system font. 2. The base font should be commited as firmware/sysfixed.bdf and firmware/sysfixed.c, with (as soon as I contribute the C-based bdf convertor) an automatic makefile-driven conversion from .bdf to .c with each build. This way it's easy to substitute a different font as the system default without re-doing all the makefiles, etc. Have you seen any single-line width fonts we could use as a fixed-width base font? Regards, Greg Received on 2002-09-17 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |