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On Thursday 03 December 2015 18:38:02 Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> I spent quite a long time playing with these programs back in September, |
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> getting rid of that blasted zero stroke. Trouble was, if I got rid of |
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> the whole stroke, it looked too much like a capital o, and if I got rid |
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> of just the middle bit, there was a sort of "shadow S" going through the |
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> whole character. |
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> On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 02:53:23PM +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > Just an update in case anyone's interested. |
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> And from me: somehow, in the end, I never got round to installing any of |
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> the fonts I so painfully crafted. So I am still stuck with that nasty |
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> slash through the zero. One of these days, maybe ..... |
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Ah, but I also made the zero narrower. I noticed that the original was |
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asymmetrical, with a single column of empty pixels down the left side but |
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two down the right. So I just shifted the left part of the character over by |
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one pixel, which necessitated shortening the top and bottom by that amount. |
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Et voila! Easily distinguished eight, zero and capital O, and aesthetically |
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quite pleasing, to boot. It only took a couple of minutes. |
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A question for Wabe: are you talking about X fonts? I've been working on |
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console fonts on a machine that has no X or other GUI. It's bad enough that |
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terminus-font needs a few X libraries, without going the whole hog. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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