Miniwi font

This is a font in a 8x4 format (including spaces), made from scratch, but with inspiration from the tom thumb font (thank you, Robey!).

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

Then on my laptop screen…

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 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):

./bdf2psf --fb\
          ../miniwi.bdf\
          ./standard.equivalents\
          ./miniwi.set\
          512\
          ../miniwi.psfu

Otherwise, I build the font with fontforge.

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

(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")

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/.