Re: [ANN] Timing Diagram Font - free

On 30 Oct, in article <xnzly06r9v.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
dj@xxxxxxxxxxx "DJ Delorie" wrote:

paul$@pcserviceselectronics.co.uk (Paul Carpenter) writes:
Please remember This is a Symbol font which means there are fewer codes
available, however the bonus is in word processor documents this type of
font is not supposed to be spell-checked!

I'll assume you know more than I about that, but I've seen the symbol
fonts in UTF-8 and they're HUGE.

Truetype Symbol font basically uses glyphs $FF00 - $FFFF (with some
reserved) to be compatible with more systems.

I'll try not to imagine spell checking a timing diagram.

Unfortunately some people leave spell checking on all the time and I knew
would complain about

"having to add strange combinations to their dictionary"

Greyscale is something being considered for future versions, but as
a symbol font might be limited. Colours definitely works.

Well, "greyscale" is just color, limited to greys ;-)

For video not fonts, fonts are either monochrome or greyscale. Setting
the foreground/background to a single colour, still makes it monochrome.
Creating the greylevel glyphs is a design level choice.

Bold may be confusing on some symbols (undefined for starters).

I'm thinking "wide" signal lines vs "narrow" signal lines. It would
be a completely separate font; the correlation to "bold" happens in
the font's attributes.

I realise that, but it is how the heavier weighting (and widening of lines)
affects the symbols in particular 'undefined' and if the widening of
lines part way through a signal line is acceptable.

Open Office seems to be able to synthetically bold and italicise the
timing font, although their "bold" is almost the same as normal.

It is always possible to do a slight 'dilation'/'erosion' of the
characeter image, but that becomes application/platform dependent.

These are things I will look at for next release[1], after a few thoughts.
It has taken me a few months to get round to creating this one.

[1] bearing in mind this gets done when I have some time, or is in
parlances 'when I have some tuits of the the correct shape'.

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