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Posted 22 February 2018 - 02:06 AM
GitHub page, the README is pretty self explanatory.
Preview:
(Cropped image of gnome-terminal running test script, background image from here)
Took me a weekend to get a working PCF and a few more days to fix most bugs in the code. IMO worth it, because I've wanted the CC font in my terminal for a while now.
Since X11 has built-in support for PCF files, you'll be able to use the ComputerCraft font on virtually any Linux distribution (Given a few restrictions, Google Chrome does not like bitmap fonts, for example, and some applications ignore fonts with the wrong proportions/metrics). In fact, I believe it is possible to convert the files so even the kernel terminals can use them.
I might look into converting the font to TTF or OTF too, although those formats are much more complex.
Fontforge might make the conversion pretty easy, though.
I might also look into mapping the glyphs at U+0000-U+001F and U+007F-U+00A0 to printable codepoints (The PCF format is not at all designed for multibyte encodings, but it's allowed).
Preview:
(Cropped image of gnome-terminal running test script, background image from here)
Took me a weekend to get a working PCF and a few more days to fix most bugs in the code. IMO worth it, because I've wanted the CC font in my terminal for a while now.
Since X11 has built-in support for PCF files, you'll be able to use the ComputerCraft font on virtually any Linux distribution (Given a few restrictions, Google Chrome does not like bitmap fonts, for example, and some applications ignore fonts with the wrong proportions/metrics). In fact, I believe it is possible to convert the files so even the kernel terminals can use them.
I might look into converting the font to TTF or OTF too, although those formats are much more complex.
Fontforge might make the conversion pretty easy, though.
I might also look into mapping the glyphs at U+0000-U+001F and U+007F-U+00A0 to printable codepoints (The PCF format is not at all designed for multibyte encodings, but it's allowed).