Re: [stella] Experimental Text Screen

Subject: Re: [stella] Experimental Text Screen
From: "Clay Halliwell" <clay.h@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 17:22:20 -0600
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From: "Rob" <kudla@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <stella@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: [stella] Experimental Text Screen


> On Sunday 26 January 2003 02:11, Paul Slocum wrote:
> > But how do you display W and M in a 4 bit font?
>
> I've been thinking maybe the way to go is pseudo-proportional - make a
4-bit
> font for all the characters except W and M, and make them "macros" of two
> characters.

Combining two characters would cause the width to more than double-- from 3
bits wide to 7. I think this cure would be worse than the disease.

Clay

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