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@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ additions: * Currency symbols * More punctuation * Just enough Katakana to say コンニチハ -* Powerline glyphs in the *Private Use Area* at U+e0a0 +* [Powerline](https://github.com/powerline/powerline) glyphs in the *Private Use Area* at U+e0a0 I have tried hard to keep the look of the font for Greek and Cyrillic glyphs, but not for symbols like arrows and mathematical operators where @@ -193,6 +193,15 @@ drawing characters, where there will be vertical gaps. The same applies to all glyphs that connect to glyphs above and below, such as large parentheses, braces, brackets, integrals, etc. +Due to a Windows quirk, I have added six fake Hiraga glyphs that Windows +tests the existence of (and would otherwise reject as a font). I'd be +extremely delighted if someone contributed the full set of Hiragana +glyphs. + +### Is there a gallant.fon for Windows? + +No. The `fon` file format, dated as it is, does not support Unicode and +would only contain 256 glyphs. ## Who are you? @@ -204,6 +213,51 @@ university with the 3/60 and the SPARCstations. It was then and there that the gallant font and the Trinitron CRT raster were burnt in my retina. +## How did you edit the glyphs? + +With a text editor (vim). I wrote the [`hextosrc`](hextosrc.c) utility +which turns `gallant.hex` into a human readable file with 1 character +cell per pixel, a row count from 22 down to 1 so I know where the +baseline (06) is and each pixel row between `|` characters (12 or 24, +space for pixel not set, full block `█` for set). My +[`srctohex`](srctohex.c) utility converts in the opposite direction. + +This is what the glyph for A looks like: + +``` +STARTCHAR U0041 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A +22 | | +21 | | +20 | | +19 | ██ | +18 | ██ | +17 | █ ██ | +16 | █ ██ | +15 | █ █ | +14 | █ ██ | +13 | █ ██ | +12 | █ █ | +11 | ████████ | +10 | █ ██ | +09 | █ █ | +08 | █ ██ | +07 | █ ██ | +06 |███ ████| +05 | | +04 | | +03 | | +02 | | +01 | | +ENDCHAR +``` + +The row numbers and Unicode names are ignored by `srctohex`, and +inserted/restored by `hextosrc`. This allows to freely add and delete +pixel rows without tedious row renumbering or knowing the Unicode name. + +The utilites are complemented by [`hextobdf`](hextobdf.c) to generate +`gallant.bdf`. From there, other tools can create additional font formats. + ## History The oldest reference to the Gallant font I could find at first was in a @@ -228,10 +282,11 @@ In private conversation with the author, Jef said he guessed that the gallant font was designed by someone at Sun Microsystems before it made its way to Berkeley. -The Unix history site [v6sh.org](https://v6sh.org/) has a list of the -[4.4BSD-Alpha src directory +Further research examining the Unix history site +[v6sh.org](https://v6sh.org/) revealed a list of the [4.4BSD-Alpha src +directory contents](https://tuhs.v6sh.org/UnixArchiveMirror/Distributions/UCB/4.4BSD-Alpha/src.lst) -which contains an `rcons` directory with +which contains an `rcons` directory with these files: ``` rwxrwxr-x 3/9 0 Jul 25 07:58 1992 usr/src/sys/sparc/rcons/ @@ -245,7 +300,7 @@ r--r--r-- 3/9 7756 Jul 22 09:50 1992 usr/src/sys/sparc/rcons/rcons_kern.c r--r--r-- 3/9 15437 Jul 22 09:50 1992 usr/src/sys/sparc/rcons/rcons_subr.c ``` -The relevant C language header file is in +Gallant's relevant C language header file is in [History/rcons/gallant19.h](History/rcons/gallant19.h). The @@ -302,4 +357,3 @@ need to render them. This is the mapping: ## TODO * Describe how to contribute -* Describe the helper programs |