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NiLuJe · 08-13-2018, 10:24 PM

* Yeah, a scaled down version of the same glyphs would do just fine for the lowercase stuff

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* See the attached snapshot

. I get the idea, but (some of) the digits are a bit all over the place (mostly 1, 2 & 3).

I'm considering the lack of padding a feature and not a bug ^^. Might be worth experimenting with a tiny bit of padding for the lowercase stuff, though? But I don't really have a strong opinion on that one

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* Yeah, there's a lot of really tiny BDF/PCF fonts (f.g., creep is 4xsomething, IIRC). Unfortunately, I can only use stuff with a *width* that matches the width of a C data type in bits (i.e., 8/16/32/64). If there's one column of difference one way or the other, than can usually be fudged w/ gbdfed, but even then, turns out that severely limits our possibilities

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(Plus, in our case, 8x8 is already mind-boggingly tiny on a >250dpi screen ;p)

08-13-2018, 10:24 PM	#32
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047202 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	* Yeah, a scaled down version of the same glyphs would do just fine for the lowercase stuff . * See the attached snapshot . I get the idea, but (some of) the digits are a bit all over the place (mostly 1, 2 & 3). I'm considering the lack of padding a feature and not a bug ^^. Might be worth experimenting with a tiny bit of padding for the lowercase stuff, though? But I don't really have a strong opinion on that one . * Yeah, there's a lot of really tiny BDF/PCF fonts (f.g., creep is 4xsomething, IIRC). Unfortunately, I can only use stuff with a width that matches the width of a C data type in bits (i.e., 8/16/32/64). If there's one column of difference one way or the other, than can usually be fudged w/ gbdfed, but even then, turns out that severely limits our possibilities . (Plus, in our case, 8x8 is already mind-boggingly tiny on a >250dpi screen ;p) Attached Thumbnails Last edited by NiLuJe; 08-13-2018 at 10:36 PM.