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Gottlieb System 80B truncated on standard virtual DMD
problem described in this thread: https://www.vpforums.org/index.php?showtopic=41298 this is an issue mainly for real DMD users since the new alphanumeric rendering feature is not an option
Well, the two problems discussed in that thread were solved.
For the truncation, we would need to cram 20 chars into 128 pixels of width. Currently they are 8 dots of width for 16 chars, for 20 chars that would make 6.4 dots. Possible, but very ugly I'd say? Wouldn't truncation be preferred?
EDIT: Looks like this is a 5-pixel wide font that could work...
EDIT2: Actually, we don't need to render characters but segments. So 14 segments onto 6x16 dots, which is kind of impossible.
excuse my ignorance, but are you saying that it is just rendering the segments without actually interpreting the characters, which is why the font can't be adjusted?
as far as the font, I know that UltraDMD uses some smaller ones that are still readable on the real DMD:
Exactly.
In order to solve this properly, we would need to parse all segment combinations and reinterpret them, which isn't always possible, because a) afaik there are chars that share the same segments, and b) sometimes segments are purely used for effect and have no alphanum representation at all.
So I didn't notice until now, but apparently lucky1 added support for this in his build starting back in November. It doesn't look like it made it into your 2.0 release, however.