On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 19:10:22 +0200 "Flemming Richter Mikkelsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> On 6/9/08, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > an 80x24 terminal is possible to make it readable @ qvga - if we allow > > scrolling. (and possible in landscape with an ultra-tiny 4-pixel wide font - > > possible (3 pixels for text, 1 for space). not very nice though. > > How can u separate @, #, $, S, %, æ, ø, o, etc, when only using 3 pixels? > 5 pix + 1 pix space is a minimum for good reading, unless some chars > take more space than others. you make little shapeless blobs of the chars :) you can tell the difference (though it's a terminal - if you start going into intl. chars like æ etc. imho you are exiting the vt100 world - you could argue that you can't read 魚 in a 3 pixel (+ 1 space) font either... so i draw the line at basic ascii for a terminal. nb - your chars just become tall (3x7). eg: % # # # # # S ## # # # ## s ## ## ## ## $ # ## ## # ## ## # @ ## # # ### ### ### # ## # # # # # ### # # ### # # # # o # # # # # # -- Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
