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2. Re: Big Fonts weekend was just great

• Posted by Lucius Hilley <lhilley at CDC.NET> May 26, 1999
• 407 views
• Last edited May 27, 1999

Norm,

    By all means continue your font work.  Don't wait on my routines.
When I am finished with my font code.  We should easily be able to
convert the fonts without any problems.

    Hex editor for the fonts !!!
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A hex editor is a fine idea for Sprites & fonts but not for the font
files that I create.  My fonts will be stored as BITS not BYTES.
BITS aren't represented well with a HEX editor.  Ask anyone you want
about this factor.  There are 2 hex values per byte.  There are 8
bits per byte.

The Letter "X".  16x16 Font. for demo purposes

    Sprite/Font in Hex Editor
    -------------------------
    01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01
    00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00
    00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00
    00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00
    00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00
    00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00
    00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00
    00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00
    00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00
    00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00
    00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00
    00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00
    01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01


    My Font storage in Hex Editor
    -----------------------------
    80 01
    40 02
    20 04
    10 08
    08 10
    04 20
    02 40
    01 80
    01 80
    02 40
    04 20
    08 10
    10 08
    20 04
    40 02
    80 01

I surely hope you now see how little a hex editor will help in this case.
I took the liberty to spread each line of the font out into seperate
lines.  The hex editor won't be so nice. <grin>



        Lucius L. Hilley III
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-----Original Message-----
From: Norm Goundry <bonk1000 at HOTMAIL.COM>
To: EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Date: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 10:33 PM
Subject: Big Fonts weekend was just great


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>Poster:       Norm Goundry <bonk1000 at HOTMAIL.COM>
>Subject:      Big Fonts weekend was just great
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>Thank you Colin
>
>Yes, it was... well, just Great.  It is called Victoria Day here in Canada,
>after Queen Victoria.  Usually the best weather and time of the year for
>holidays.
>
>Incidently, you know that Lucius has been putting much effort in
>essentially the same direction; he is a very hard worker.
>
>Yeah, the Hex-Editor is a favourite of mine; I have never yet seen a font
>editor with those capabilities, so I am very interested in what can happen
>here.
>
>As for the first set of questions, I would like it to do everything you
>mentioned.  And I prefer DOS (but note that LLAMA is developing font
>capabilities and Big Font format should be brought up to work with WIN32
>also.
>
>As to the uniqueness of the Chinese Characters, I will post another message
>right after this one that will cover that in more detail.  Hopefully this
>will answer some of the questions.
>
>Norm
>