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From: mperdue@iquest.net (Mario Perdue)
Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.programming.2d_graphics
Subject: Re: Fonts?
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 14:52:41 GMT
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On 19 May 1997 22:56:26 GMT, "Manny Najera" <mnajera@ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

>From what I've seen, all the letters in font image files are arranged in
>the same way.  Is there a reason they are arranged this way?  I fully
>understand how to use the sprite u and v variables to only display a
>certain prortion of a sprite, but I'm used to having boatloads of IF
>statements to make a font.
>

The fonts are arranged the way they are to work with FntLoad(),
FntPrint(), etc. These functions require the fonts to be loaded into a
256x128 pixel image it the proper sequence. These fonts are not overly
useful, except for debug messages.

Mario