On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 03:57 am, Mikhail V wrote: [...] >>> And more important: can one use binary (bitmap) fonts in default modern >>> linux console? If yes, can one patch them with custom tiles at >>> the application start? >> >> If you really need something completely custom, it's not text any >> more. > > Obvious fact, but if I need e.g. rounded corners in table drawing > characters? Or I just want to fix some characters which look especially > ugly? Create a new TTF? No, thanks, this would be worst nightmare to > do without a special tool (which have prices with several zeros, otherwise > just don't work and can even break things system-wide)
Don't be silly. It took me ten seconds on Google to find this: https://birdfont.org/ It is no charge for an open source licence, or $5 USD for a commercial licence. If that's too cheap, you can use FontCreator at just $79: http://www.high-logic.com/font-editor/fontcreator.html >> More likely, you don't truly need something custom - what you need is >> a different subset of characters (maybe you need to mix Latin, Greek, >> and Hebrew letters, in order to show interlinear translation of the >> Bible). Instead of messing around with character sets, you can just >> use Unicode and have all of them available. > > If I was to deal with multiple language charsets in _my own_ rendering > app, I would still use discrete encoding for inner algorithms. > i.e. I would place separate charsets on separate code ranges. Why? Because you think you know better than the thousands of professionals who have worked with text formats for decades? > And for own standalone app, I would not use any TTF or > anything vector-based font, since why? Right, because your users will *love* to see their native language displayed in a crappy bitmapped font with jagged or blurry edges. -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
