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Keyboard layout and proportional fonts

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DervishD:

--- Quote from: markun on August 15, 2007, 07:29:16 AM ---The code was written to use the max width of the glyphs in the .kbd file.
If you think the font looks better maybe you could submit a patch for it?

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I've adapted the font to my likings, so I think it won't look better for everyone. This said, I think that some characters of the snap font look better after I've modified. What I can do is modifying the characters that look specially bad or that violate the FONTBOUNDINGBOX in the BDF. Will such a patch be accepted? For me it's just a few minutes with gbdfed ;) Of course it's much easier for me to send a patch for the font as-is, but some people using the "snap" font may miss some characters.

In the font I'm using I've removed some non-latin1 characters, modified the spacing of some chars and change some ugly looking chars (like the asterisk, for example). Moreover, I've removed some characters that weren't part of Unicode but were present in the font, replacing unicode characters. Since this may be considered a bad use of the font, I have not distributed the modifications. Maybe this can be called "usnap" or something (as it respects Unicode, even though it doesn't provide characters out of the latin1 plane...).

Raúl

DervishD:

--- Quote from: bascule on August 15, 2007, 07:05:58 AM ---
--- Quote from: DervishD on August 15, 2007, 06:33:31 AM ---Damn, rockbox is fantastic:
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Oh yeah!  ;D

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I've forced a friend (who also has an iAudio X5V) to use Rockbox, too. And of course, I twisted his arm until he used my backdrop (which is a cute Linux penguin ;D)

I have another friend with an iPod, and he is smaller than me so I think I can manage to force him to use Rockbox too...

Curiously, my iAudio friend didn't want to try Rockbox because he thought it loooked "ugly", so he assumed it won't be very powerful. But then I throw the "Ultima" theme to his ugly face and now his life has changed  ::)

Raúl

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