Re: Re-factoring the graphical fonts

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On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 08:33 +0100, Markus Dolze wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Using BDF would be another option. Currently I planning to integrate the
> serdisplib driver by Bernhard and make the FreeType support it contains
> available as a shared lib for other drivers.
> 
> The reason that I have not put anything in 0-31 is simply a restriction
> of the font creation tool I used.
> 
> Yes, full height hbars look bad on seamless displays. To use the
> lib_hbar_static() with a smaller blocks I have to recompile everything
> with SEAMLESS_HBARS to prevent it from using ICON_BLOCK_FILLED for the
> full block. This is annoying me for a long time already and I think this
> should be an option a driver may set. However, I have not yet found time
> to change it.
> 
> Anyway, I updated the font a little:
> 
>     * Use hbar chars in line with character height.
>     * Update small 'c'. The original looked strange compared to other
>       fonts (although it was like on hd44780 displays)
>     * Use heart without the surrounding box like in current t6963 and
>       imonlcd fonts.
> 
> Regards,
> Markus
> 
> On 22.03.2011 07:50, Eric Pooch wrote:
> > The font looks good - like the standard HD44780 font, which will be
> > nice for consistency.  As I mentioned it previously - a BDF font
> > rendering library in LCDproc would be nice.  I would be happy to
> > help.  Is there a reason why aren't you using the 0-31 characters in
> > the top row of the font?   Also, I recall in my testing that a full
> > height horizontally extending bar looked too tall, which is why we
> > only included a shorter version.
> >
> > --Eric
> 
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