Miniwi

#+title: Miniwi font

This is a font in a 8x4 format (including spaces), made from scratch, but with inspiration from the [[http://robey.lag.net/2010/01/23/tiny-monospace-font.html][tom thumb]] font (thank you, Robey!).

[[./preview.png]]

On a 320x240 raspberry screen, it can display 80x30 (2400) characters.

Then on my laptop screen...

[[./screenshot.png]]

It support the characters from these encodings:

• ASCII characters (easy!)
• ISO 8859-{1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 13, 14} (Latin 0 to 8)
• ISO 8859-5 and KOI8-R (Cyrilic)
• ISO 8859-6 (Arabic)
• ISO 8859-7 (Greek)
• ISO 8859-8 (Hebrew)

... as well as box-drawing characters, all braille characters to make it suitable for [[https://github.com/asciimoo/drawille][drawille]] and mincellaneous symbols (math, punctuation, all circled numbers and letters ...).

• More?

I have mosts of the glyph I need, and if you want some more, ask me and I may add them!

Contributions are welcome as well.

• Build

The psf tty font is generated by a slightly modified version of =bdf2psf= (to prevent a bug, I hardcoded the font width):

#+begin_src sh ./bdf2psf --fb
../miniwi.bdf
./standard.equivalents
./miniwi.set
512
../miniwi.psfu #+end_src

Otherwise, I build the font with fontforge.

To generate the font set comments from the characters code, I used this emacs macro:

#+begin_src elisp (global-set-key (kbd "M-s s") 'isearch-forward) (setq last-kbd-macro "\C-f\C-f\C-@\C-e\C-[w # \C-u\C-[:(char-to-string #x\C-y)\C-m\C-?\C-b\C-?\C-u\C-x=\C-xo\C-[ssE\C-?C-x 8\C-s\C-m\C-f\C-@\C-e\C-b\C-[wq\C-y\C-d\C-a\C-n") #+end_src

And to count the number of characters that will be included in the font, I used this regex: =^[0-9ABCDEFabcdef]{4}=

• License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.