> On Dec 24, 2015, at 1:14 PM, mpu <quen...@c9x.me> wrote: > > Ben Woolley <tauto...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I made two fonts from nothing in a couple hours [...] > > Cool! I found it pretty addictive too :). > >> Basically, what I am trying to do is make a font that >> is 7px high and 6px wide, with a baseline as the second >> pixel from the bottom, and only 5 usable pixels wide (the >> 6th pixel is always unset, the chars are 6px apart, and >> the 6th pixel separates the 5px wide chars). To do that, >> I created a 6x7 folder, and put BASELINE=1 in Settings. I >> ended up having xfontsel render only 4px from the left, >> even though the chars are rendered 6px apart properly. I >> think the SWIDTH needs to be something else. Any ideas? > > The problem is not with SWIDTH, this SWIDTH field is really > fixed as long as your glyphs all have the same width. The > issue was in the awk script to convert dots and crosses > into hex numbers. I pushed an updated version on Github. > > Let me know if that fixed it for you. >
Yep, it sure did. Thank you. :) I finally did rule out the properties by comparing and aligning it to a working font of the same size I had made in gbdfed, but didn't get any further than that. When I am done, I will package it up. I have an 8px font for coding, but figured out a couple 7px variants, including a way to do readable lowercase letters. 6px has some awkward characters, like "e" and "s", so it is a bit too extreme for me for casual use. > > Cheers, > > -- mpu >
