David JONES

My plans for xmbdfed (BDF bitmap font editor) https://codeberg.org/drj/xmbdfed are:

• soon a maintenance release 4.7.4 ish (4.7 was the last release, in 2004), basically my current changes wrapped up, which are mostly making it compile and removing bugs for a modern system;
• then later moving towards making it simpler by removing options. So if you actually use it and dearly love some non-default option, say so now. I'll probably change the bitmap editor to be more MacPaint-like too.

#xmbdfed

Bitmap fonts, eh? What's your favourite font format? Yes, i know about TrueType (though examples would be welcome), BDF, Windows FON (a bit), Adobe BDF (a bit), Plan 9.

Please RT.
#BitmapFont

I have done a #Mayke of pickled onions. The secret ingredient is flowers and pods from the overwintered kale ("it's Cavolo Nero, actually"), all parts of which are edible (true of all brassicas, but note that edible means "not poisonous", not "delicious").

@mhd@tilde.zone so i never did play around with BDF fonts in the 1990s when i was using X11. I guess because the setup i used most, an X server logged onto a large shared Unix server, did not allow me to fiddle the served fonts.

Except reading around now, it seems that i can (or could have) run my own xfs and edit BDFs in a subdirectory of $HOME. I guess i wasn't that interested at the time.

Also, in my first job, where there were plenty of different Unix workstations it would have been possible to "borrow" fonts from another font server; but again, never did that either.

@simontatham@hachyderm.io @thaodan@mastodon.social sure, less predates vim, but it doesn't predate vi. (though more might; i'm not sure)