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@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ 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 +The utilities are complemented by [`hextobdf`](hextobdf.c) to generate `gallant.bdf`. From there, other tools can create additional font formats. ## History @@ -349,10 +349,10 @@ The makes it likely it was acquired between 4.3BSD and [4.4BSD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Berkeley_Software_Distribution#4.4BSD_and_descendants). -After asking in the usenet newsgroup comp.sys.sun.hardware—16 +After asking in the Usenet newsgroup comp.sys.sun.hardware—16 years after Sun was acquired by Oracle people *do* lurk there—some helpful soul reached out to me with links to [the -openboot gallant +OpenBoot gallant font](https://github.com/openbios/openboot/blob/master/obp/pkg/termemu/gallant.fth) and a PDF titled [From the Valley of Heart's Delight to the Silicon Valley: A Study of Stanford University's Role in the @@ -376,13 +376,14 @@ Vaughan Pratt provides this anecdote how Gallant came to be: ## Remarks -Codepoints 0 through 31 contain glyphs of the VT100 line-drawing -character set othwise known as the [DEC Special Character and Line -Drawing Set](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Special_Graphics). They -were left unmodified to not change their intended use by applications -that expect them there. Each of the special characters also has an -"official" Unicode codepoint. Contemporary applications should never -need to render them. This is the mapping: +Codepoints 0 through 31 contain glyphs of the +[VT100](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT100) line-drawing character set +otherwise known as the [DEC Special Character and Line Drawing +Set](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Special_Graphics). They were left +unmodified to not change their intended use by applications that expect +them there. Each of the special characters also has an "official" +Unicode codepoint. Contemporary applications should never need to render +them. This is the mapping: |Special |Official |Name | |--------|---------|---------| |