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\s1\ri-1050\sb240\sa60\keepn\widctlpar \b\f5\fs28\lang2057\kerning28 Font file format

\par \pard\plain \ri-1050\widctlpar \f4\fs20\lang2057 

\par The font can be broken down into the following sections:-

\par 

\par \pard \ri-1050\widctlpar {\f11 Signature

\par Header info

\par Character map

\par Font metrics

\par Font encoding

\par }\pard\plain \s3\ri-1050\sb240\sa60\keepn\widctlpar \b\f4\lang2057 Signature

\par \pard\plain \ri-1050\widctlpar \f4\fs20\lang2057 T.B.S, will be designed to fit in with a global Protea standard

\par \pard\plain \s3\ri-1050\sb240\sa60\keepn\widctlpar \b\f4\lang2057 Header Info

\par \pard\plain \ri-1050\widctlpar \f4\fs20\lang2057 {\f11 \{

\par WORD cell_height;

\par WORD ascent;

\par WORD descent;

\par BYTE uline_pos;

\par UBYTE uline_hgt;

\par WORD section_count;

\par UWORD flags;

\par TEXT name[PRF_NAME_SIZE];

\par \}

\par }\pard\plain \s3\ri-1050\sb240\sa60\keepn\widctlpar \b\f4\lang2057 Character map

\par \pard\plain \ri-1050\widctlpar \f4\fs20\lang2057 List of {\f11 section_count}

 of following structure specifying sections of the character space that contain characters. (Note, it is assumed there will be very large empty sections so a solid block of characters with holes would be very inefficient).

\par \pard \ri-1050\widctlpar\tx4395 {\f11 \{

\par WORD start;

\par WORD end;

\par \}

\par }\pard\plain \s3\ri-1050\sb240\sa60\keepn\widctlpar \b\f4\lang2057 Font metrics

\par \pard\plain \ri-1050\widctlpar \f4\fs20\lang2057 {\f11 \{

\par BYTE leftAdjust;\tab // Adjustment for left hand side of the character cell

\par BYTE rightAdjust; // Adjustment for right hand side of the character cell

\par WORD ascent;\tab // Ascent of top of character cell from print position

\par WORD height;\tab // Height of character cell

\par WORD move;\tab \tab // Amount to move the print position

\par LONG offset;\tab // Offset of character encoding from start of encoding data

\par \}

\par }\pard\plain \s3\sb240\sa60\keepn\widctlpar \b\f4\lang2057 Font encoding

\par \pard\plain \ri-1050\widctlpar \f4\fs20\lang2057 

The font encoding is compacted together with no bit alignement within each character, although each character will start on a byte boundary. Each section of encoding is preceeded by a count that specifies either the numbe

r of times the next line will repeat or the number of non-repeating lines to read before another count is encountered. The count is stored in 5 bits, if the first is set the count is a count of non-repeating lines following, if the bit is clear the count 

specifies the number of times to repeat the following line.

\par \pard \ri-1050\widctlpar 

\par \pard\plain \s3\sb240\sa60\keepn\widctlpar \b\f4\lang2057 Example of encoding.

\par \pard\plain \ri-1049\keepn\widctlpar \f4\fs20\lang2057 {\f11\fs24 XXX.....XXX

\par .X.......X.

\par .X.......X.

\par .X.......X.

\par .XXXXXXXXX.

\par .X.......X.

\par .X.......X.

\par .X.......X.

\par XXX.....XXX

\par }\pard \ri-1050\widctlpar {\f11\fs24 

\par }\pard \ri-1050\widctlpar First count could either be specified as a repeat of 1 or 1 non-repeating scan line, followed by 11 bits of picture data ({\f11 XXX.....XXX}

). Then a repeat count of 3 followed the next 11 bits of picture data specifying the line to repeat ({\f11 .X.......X.}). Then again either a repeat of 1 or a non-repeat count of 1 followed by the picture data ({\f11 .XXXXXXXXX.}

). Another repeat of 3 and the picture data ({\f11 .X.......X.}), and a repeat of non-repeat count of 1 and the final line of picture data ({\f11 XXX.....XXX}).

\par \pard \ri-1050\widctlpar The total storage space for this example would be 80 bits (10 bytes), .Made up of 5x5bits of count info + 5x11 bits of picture info.

\par }