Re: [wiki] [sites] project_ideas: update with useful links || Hiltjo Posthuma

From: bzt <bztemail_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2022 09:10:26 +0200

May I ask why have you removed Scalable Screen Font? It belongs there,
about C reimplementation of fonts...


On 07/10/2022, git_AT_suckless.org <git_AT_suckless.org> wrote:
> commit 8d998326ec406d668477359671533aa7a839bc13
> Author: Hiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo_AT_codemadness.org>
> Date: Fri Oct 7 10:16:13 2022 +0200
>
> project_ideas: update with useful links
>
> (and remove a proposed solution, maybe add this to related projects or
> so).
>
> diff --git a/suckless.org/project_ideas/index.md
> b/suckless.org/project_ideas/index.md
> index f5b1fd7b..976b2e6c 100644
> --- a/suckless.org/project_ideas/index.md
> +++ b/suckless.org/project_ideas/index.md
> _AT_@ -26,7 +26,10 @@ Current small tasks
> <https://git.suckless.org/sites/file/build-page.c.html>
> This should use the geomyidae gopher server and the gph output format.
> Difficulty: medium-rare.
> -* Fix broken patches on the wiki. Difficulty: trivial-medium.
> +* Fix broken patches on the wiki. Difficulty: trivial-medium.
> + See: <https://gunther.suckless.org/patches/>
> +* Fix broken links on the wiki. Difficulty: trivial.
> + See: <https://git.suckless.org/sites/file/checklinks.sh.html>
> * Fix typos and formatting errors on the wiki. Difficulty: trivial.
>
>
> _AT_@ -49,13 +52,6 @@ care about font specifics.
> [Some work](https://git.ekleog.org/leo/dtext) has already been done to
> replace
> libXft and Fontconfig. Real-world testing is however still needed.
>
> -A simple solution is [Scalable Screen
> Font](https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/scalable-font2),
> -which is a dependency-free, single ANSI C89 header file that can render
> bitmap,
> -pixmap and vector fonts using the same API. Uses a very efficient font
> format and
> -includes a multiplatform command line tool to convert virtually all font
> files
> -into .sfn files. Comparable to professional font rendering engines,
> supports
> -UNICODE, scaling, anti-aliasing, alpha-blending, kerning, ligatures etc.
> -
> ***Requirements:*** C knowledge, some X11 knowledge and of course
> knowledge
> about the font formats and how to handle them.
>
>
>
>
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