Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site talcott.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!chaid From: chaid@talcott.UUCP (install account for chaid) Newsgroups: net.micro.att Subject: re: Question about documentation on fonts for PC 7300 Message-ID: <543@talcott.UUCP> Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 21:38:58 EST Article-I.D.: talcott.543 Posted: Tue Nov 12 21:38:58 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Nov-85 08:55:48 EST References: <353@kepler.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: Harvard Univ. Sociology Dept. Cambridge. MA Lines: 24 Summary: FONT (4) incomprehensible In article <353@kepler.UUCP>, michaelb@kepler.UUCP (Michael Brant) writes: > > The 7300 UNIX System V User's Manual is indispensable. Most of what you > need is in this document, specifically font(4), cfont(1), form(3T), menu(3T), > window(7), track(3T), and tam(3T). > ... > If the user > wants to define his own custom font, this can be done by building a file > as described in the font(4) manual page. I tried to write I program to read a file in the FONT (4) format. I could sort out most the spec, but was entirely unable to find where the minirasters connected to a given character image are. The struct fntdef structure has as its last field a "unsigned short ff_raster" with comment "mionirasters". Each character (struct fcdef) has a "short fc_mr" with comment "relative mini-raster pointer". Nothing there explains what this pointer is relative to. I tried everything I could thing of: relative to the ff_raster location, relative to the beginning of the file, etc. Nothing worked. Any comments (or a code fragment perhaps) would be graciously appreciated. Bob Kaplan