Subj : Syncterm Loadable Fonts
To   : Apam
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Jun 14 2022 18:36:59

  Re: Syncterm Loadable Fonts
  By: Apam to Digital Man on Wed Jun 15 2022 10:28 am

 > Hi
 >
 > I'm looking to add loadble fonts into my terminal, but unsure what format
 > the font is in. I mean, I see it's in base64 format, but not sure what
 > format it is when it is decoded?

The underlying font format is just bitmap CGA font data, each byte is a row of char/glyph data since the character cells are 8-pixels wide. Fonts can be either 8, 14, or 16 rows high however, so the number of bytes that make up a complete char/glyph depends on the target video mode.

 > Also last night while I was adding sixel support, I think I spotted an error
 > (or at least it confused me) in cterm.txt
 >
 > Under raster attributes, it says "p3 and p4 define the height and width in
 > sixels" I think it should read "p3 and p4 define the width and height in
 > sixels" as p3 is the width and p4 is the height.

Quite likely just a typo. Something to tell Deuce in irc.synchro.net :-)
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