Subj : Re: ST-FONT v0.2b
To   : AKAcastor
From : fusion
Date : Wed Apr 24 2024 05:00 pm

On 24 Apr 2024, AKAcastor said the following...
 
 AK> Seems to have the same behaviour on my system.  Nothing output, returns
 AK> errorlevel 1.

made a little video for how i run it. not really sure why it's misbehaving now..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG86f-lN6Xs

 AK> The fonts included in the Syncterm package will already be available in
 AK> Syncterm, I assume?  So they're just for illustrative purposes (but
 AK> wouldn't actually provide an additional font)?

not quite. the ones included in the Syncterm pack don't seem to be used by default, but can be added into a custom list and then selected to be default for a specific bbs in the dialing directory. from what i can tell Synchronet itself always sends the font manually if it's not in that original 43.

 AK> I assume only .F16 fonts (4KB filesize) are supported?

F16, F14 and F8 are seemingly the only ones Sync & Syncterm supports (it checks the file size to determine which one is which in the code. at least
for the version of Syncterm I have)

 AK> Is there documentation on the font support in SyncTerm?  I didn't search
 AK> too hard but didn't find anything describing the escape sequences used
 AK> other than the brief description in STFN.DOC.

the fonts can be created with https://int10h.org/blog/2019/05/fontraption-vga-text-mode-font-editor/
and the docs are here
https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/raw/master/src/conio/cterm.txt

 AK> BTW the file endings on the doc and cfg are unix-style, so they don't
 AK> display quite right in DOS.

i'll update it if we manage to get it to work.. a bit disheartening heh. the st32.exe one runs on my bbs fine and the st16.exe one seems to work okay in the video, but that doesn't mean anything if it doesn't work for anyone else!
 :)

Alex

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