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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 22:09:00 +0100
From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
Cc: Volodymyr Kostyrko <arcade@limbo.dn.ua>,
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: console fonts
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On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 03:24:22PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Jun 20), Volodymyr Kostyrko said:
> > Could someone point to subj format (of that keeped in
> > /usr/share/syscons/fonts)? Or how about an editor? ;)
>
> The format is (for some unknown reason) the uuencoded raw font data.
> Raw font data is just 16, 14, or 8 bytes per character, starting with
> ascii 0. It's a pretty easy format to work with, since characters are
> 8 pixels wide, which lets you put one scanline per byte in the
> datafile.
>
> My favorite font editor is an old DOS program called "Font Mania!".
> The only place I can find it anymore is
> http://zzt.org/zgames/1a_zutils/fm.zip
>
> Check Simtelnet for more. In the msdos/screen/ section, there are
> around 20 editors and probably over 300 fonts.
>
You will find 2 programs (C source, fontmake.c and fontdump.c) at
ftp://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/pub/mark/fontmake/ that will help. These 2
programs were written by Ben Smithurst, not myself.
As Dan pointed out the fonts are uuencoded, so (substitute your font
for iso-8x16):
# cd /usr/share/syscons/fonts
# uudecode iso-8x16.fnt
which writes it out as iso-8x16 (no .fnt extension), then:
# fontdump iso-8x16 > iso-8x16.txt
iso-8x16.txt contains the characters represented like this:
- Y ----
## ##
## ##
## ##
## ##
####
##
##
##
##
####
--------
- Z ----
########
## ##
# ##
##
##
##
##
## #
## ##
########
--------
so you can edit the #'s to modify or create new characters, then:
# fontmake iso-8x16.txt > iso-8x16
# uuencode iso-8x16 iso-8x16 > iso8x16.fnt
HTH
> --
> Dan Nelson
> dnelson@emsphone.com
>
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