Re: A83: _sfont_len doesn't work?


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Re: A83: _sfont_len doesn't work?




In a message dated 7/8/00 9:21:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
sebgroessl@bluewin.ch writes:

> Hey Linus, it worked finally!! But, how did you figure that out? And why is 
> the internal font table 8 bytes per character? The font is a variable width 
> font, isn't it. So the font table also should be variable, or not?

Because they don't know how wide it will be, they use an entire byte for each 
row of the font.  If they knew each font would be 4 pixels or less in width, 
they _could_ put two rows side by side in the same byte.  But this is TI, and 
they had a huge rom to fill, so they didn't bother :-)


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