font

Section: Misc. Reference Manual Pages (5L)
Updated: April 30, 1986
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NAME

Font - font file format for mgr bitmaps.

SYNOPSIS

#include "font.h"

DESCRIPTION

MGR font files consist of a font header followed by the bitmap data for each character. The header format is:

struct font_header {
        unsigned char type;             /* font type (magic number) '^v' */
        unsigned char wide;             /* character width (pixels) */
        unsigned char high;             /* char height (pixels) */
        unsigned char baseline; /* pixels from bottom of glyph */
        unsigned char count;    /* number of chars in font */
        char start;                     /* starting char in font */
   };

All of the characters in the font are are stored in a single bitmap, wide x count pixels wide, and high pixels high.

BUGS

Only fixes width fonts are currently supported.