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Font editor Fontana - finaly released! (Announce)

posted by alexfru, USA, 10.06.2025, 05:51

> You are right, Fontana runs in 800x600, 16bpp. Adaptation to other
> resolutions would be too time consuming so no, I will not do it.

Don't you need to scroll the table if there are more than 256 chars anyway?

> Have you tried to use the fullscreen option in the DosBox-X?
That works, thanks for the tip.

> And I do not understand your notes that Fontana supports only fontf with
> 256 characters. It is not true, it supports any number of characters from 1
> to 65535. What is limited are some file formats, especially V8F and FV (VGA
> hardware format). Just save and load your work in some other file format.
The format is a plain bitmap. 8 bytes per 8x8 character. No header or other metadata. That's the only format I have.

> Colours could be configurable in some future version but it is not a
> priority now.
This is the easiest part to fix/improve.

> The feature request about cloning the characters into visualy
> identical is interresting.
I didn't request that, only hinted at the possible sharing. Sharing
character shapes can get you support for some 40-50 European
languages in Latin, Cyrillic and Greek alphabets, plus Hebrew,
all in a 512-char font. Only Celtic, Arabic and Thai from
ISO/IEC 8859 don't fit in that 512-char space.

> For such task I would need some tables with
> visual equivalents. If it exist you can send it to me.
I haven't looked for one. I've constructed a table based on
my observations and needs. I do not expect someone use
the same shapes for the Latin i's and the Greek iotas or
the digit 3 and the Russian capital letter З.
In a low resolution font (8 pixels tall) on a memory-
constrained system it's reasonable. But it may not be for
some other applications.
If you find this interesting, you can review the Unicode tables
and find similar characters. Or, if you have a Windows machine,
fire up "Character Map", choose some frequently used font
and just browse what's in it (there may be some familiar
characters with odd diacritics and variations but you should
get the idea).

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