From ed932dc558b70bd8bb005ad5e42a990bc7451116 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Engelhardt Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2021 11:25:01 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] README: various clarifications --- README.md | 17 +++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 14006a4..08a1596 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -29,10 +29,10 @@ The fonts declare a set of ligatures that replace certain groups of adjacent cha | `>==` | (no ligature) | (no ligature) | ## Rationale -I was always jealous for folks using [Fira Code](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode), +I (Kirill Pertsev) was always jealous for folks using [Fira Code](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode), [Hasklig](https://github.com/i-tu/Hasklig) or [Monoid](https://github.com/larsenwork/monoid) fonts, but my problem is that I have a hard time reading (not even mentioning writing) -a computer program in anything but 8x16 font. I probably spent too much time with older +a computer program in anything but an 8x16 font. I probably spent too much time with older computers. So after fighting and losing an uphill battle with Glyph2, Fontlab and Fontforge I discovered [TTX](https://github.com/behdad/fonttools) and was able to finally stop being jealous. @@ -42,12 +42,13 @@ font for consoles and text editing. ## History This font is a simulated 8x16 bitmap font from old Windows and DOS. It was -truly monospaced and really bitmapped and initially contained only Western ASCII -charset. +truly monospaced and really bitmapped and initially contained only +windows-1250, windows-1251, a subset of windows-1252, windows-1253 +and windows-1254. Darien simulated the bitmap with TrueType outlines by building the font from 10x10 squares ("pixels") and then joining the squares together. As such, this font only works as intended in only one size and usually with antialiasing switched -off. The size is 16px or 12pt. +off. The size is 16px, or 12pt@96dpi. He also added a lot of foreign characters and made the font Unicode. @@ -62,9 +63,9 @@ in good old days, you know. The supported programming ligatures are listed in the `ligatures.txt` file. -To create a TTF file from TTX XML just run `ttx -f FSEX.ttx` -(`-f` means overwrite) or use OS X Makefile to also copy to the user Fonts -folder and update font cache. +To create a TTF file from TTX XML, just run `ttx -f FSEX.ttx` +(`-f` means overwrite) or use the OS X Makefile to also copy it to the user Fonts +folder and update the font cache. ## Supported software (incomplete list, send updates please)