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Font thing
A small bitmap font renderer with its own format.
The format
Introducing TXTF a family of text based bitmap font formats.
The first line of a TXTF font is the following:
TXTFmode nbcommentlines params
Like
TXTF 1 10 5 5 .#
The nbcommentlines parameter is the number of description or comment lines placed before the actual font data (not including the header). In this comment area, you may put stuff like modelines, copyright information and/or a description of the font.
The mode is the specific fomat in the txtf familly this file is in, the existing mode are as follow
Mode 1 (Monospace)
TXTF1nbcommentlines width height alphabetComment lines
Data
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width: is the number of pixels each character is wide
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height: is the number of pixels each character is high
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alphabet: 2 characters, the first represents OFF pixels, the second represents ON pixels.
Data is then in the following form
character "width * height of the alphabet for the character"
whitespace is ignored in character data.
Here is a sample mode 1 font
TXTF 1 2 6 6 .# Some font for the readme By Annwan !..#.....#.....#...........#......... #.#.#..#####..#.#..#####..#.#........ _........................#####.......