Interlisp
HPRINT, EQUALALL, COPYALL, COMPARELISTS on Fonts
this is partly a bug report and partly a feature request.
If I have two font files and want to compare them, there is no good way to do so. HPRINT fails to print out the character widths and offsets because they are raw pointers to the arrayp base of the array, and it doesn't know whether to treat the 256 byte block as an array of 8, 16, or 32 bit numbers. not sure, but it's worth checking for INSPECT, EQUALALL and COPYALL to see.
It would be nice if INSPECT on fonts did something more reasonable. (I say 'font' but really only checked for displayfont)
This is an old bug. HPRINT is advertised as a "print anything" . It's been pretty effective and is integrated with the RECORD package. I think the 'record package' is interesting and worth writing up. So the problem is that fonts use a feature that was added without adding the feature in HPRINT. of creating a "hunk" without using the array headers.
It was probably done as an optimization.
I made some progress on a "UNPACKFONT" feature -- the general idea is that we have a comparison on lists, so convert a font to a list structure that only uses lists, numbers, litatoms. FONTCOMPARE.txt
should dump in base64? Compare bitmaps better than READFILE of HPRINT. But at least it's a start.
hprint fails (error message) when trying to print a (common lisp) character cannot print this item |#|
