lyricalnanoha wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 25 Dec 2008, Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> 
>> BITBLT fonts in the 8-bit world are *very* different from GS/MAC
>> proportional fonts.
>>
>> The data format is pretty complex, and you'll find that it's quite a
>> trick to render them without a half-ton of code.  ;-(
> 
> Which is where the Toolkit would come into play, I presume.
> 
> But right now I'm just trying to blit a CGA font to the screen, as 
> that's relatively simple.

Right--a simple block font is no more complex than with any other
Apple II.  It's just the "GS fonts" that are hairy--and have arbitrary
heights and widths.

-michael

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