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--- manual:chapter3:fonts [2019/11/21 15:34]
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jojo1973 Move font building procedure to a separate chapter in the appendix
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 A font object is represented on the stack as ''FONTDATA xx yyy...'', where ''yyy...'' is a string of characters (''A''-''Z'', ''a''-''z'', ''$'' and ''#'') encoding the glyphs and the translation table that associates glyphs to Unicode code points while ''xx'' is the length (padded to a multiple of 4 bytes) of the aforementioned block, expressed in nibbles.
-To install a font on the system it must be stored into a variable, whose name will become the name of the font. The command ''[[manual:chapter6:fonts:cmd_fntsto|FNTSTO]]'' is used to finalize the installation of the font. A font object can be recalled by the ''[[manual:chapter6:fonts:cmd_fntrcl|FNTRCL]]'' command and uninstalled by the ''[[manual:chapter6:fonts:cmd_fntpg|FNTPG]]'' command.
+The installation of a font on the system is performed by storing the font object into a variable, whose name will become the name of the font. The command ''[[manual:chapter6:fonts:cmd_fntsto|FNTSTO]]'' executes this operation. A font object can be recalled to the stack by the ''[[manual:chapter6:fonts:cmd_fntrcl|FNTRCL]]'' command and uninstalled using the ''[[manual:chapter6:fonts:cmd_fntpg|FNTPG]]'' command.
 **newRPL** already provides 11 system fonts which are always available and can't be uninstalled. Smaller sizes are suited for soft keys, while larger sizes are preferable for stack display; however nothing prevents using large sizes for soft keys and small sizes for stack display.
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-==== Building user-defined fonts ====
-To build a custom font is not difficult at all. Necessary tools are:
-  - a graphic editor capable of saving images in .bmp format (monochrome or 256-color) to draw the glyphs;
-  - a text file providing the association between the glyphs and Unicode code points;
-  - the ''bmp2font'' tool, whose source code is avilable in ''newrpl/tools/fonts/bmp2font/''. Instructions about how to compile an executable are [[manual:chapter1:buildfromsource#bmp2font|here]].
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