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* A sparse (but complete) sample font.
*
* 1.  Assemble this file (assumed to have been saved as "suits8.asm"). For
* example, if you have the CAPE 680x0 assembler, and you have assigned
* "include:" to the directory containing your include files, use:
*          CAsm -a "suits8.asm" -o "suits8.o" -i "include:"
*
*     Link "suits8.o".  For example, if you have Lattice, use:
*          BLink from "suits8.o" to "suits8"
*
* 2.  Create the subdirectory "Fonts:suits".  Copy the file "suits8"
*     (created in step 1) to "Fonts:suits/8".
*
* 3.  Create a font contents file for the font.  You can do this by two
*      methods:
*
*   a. Run the program "System/FixFonts" which will create the file
*      "Fonts:suits.font" automatically.
*   b. Use the NewFontContents() call in the diskfont library to create a
*      FontContentsHeader structure, which can be saved in the Fonts:
*      directory as "suits.font".   This is essentially what FixFonts does.
*
* The next word contains the font YSize; in this case, 0x0008.
*
* The next byte contains the font Flags, in this case 0x00.
*
* The last byte contains the font characteristics, in this case 0x60.  This
* says it is a disk-based font (bit 1 set) and the font has been removed
* (bit 7 set), saying that the font is not currently resident.
*
* Summary of suits.font file:
*
* Name: fch_FileID fch_NumEntries fc_FileName    fc_YSize fc_Flags fc_Style
* Size: word       word     MAXFONTPATH bytes word     byte     byte
* Hex:  0f00       0001     73756974732F3800  0008     00       60
* ASCII:            s u i t s / 8 \0
*
* The correct length of a font file may be calculated with this formula:
* length = ((number of font contents entries) * (MAXFONTPATH+4)) + 4. In
* this case (one entry), this becomes (MAXFONTPATH + 8) or 264.
*
* To try out this example font, do the following.  Use the Fonts
* Preferences editor or a program that allows the user to select fonts.
* Choose the "suits" font in size 8.  This example font defines ASCII
* characters 'a' 'b' 'c' and 'd' only. All other characters map to a
* rectangle, meaning "character unknown".

    INCLUDE  "exec/types.i"
    INCLUDE  "exec/nodes.i"
    INCLUDE  "libraries/diskfont.i"

    MOVEQ  #-1,D0    ; Provide an easy exit in case this file is
    RTS              ; "Run" instead of merely loaded.

    DC.L   0         ; ln_Succ   * These five entries comprise a Node
    DC.L   0         ; ln_Pred   * structure, used by the system to link
    DC.B   NT_FONT   ; ln_Type   * disk fonts into a list.  See the
    DC.B   0         ; ln_Pri    * definition of the "DiskFontHeader"
    DC.L   fontName  ; ln_Name   * structure in the "libraries/diskfont.i"
                                 * includefile for more information.
    DC.W   DFH_ID    ; FileID
    DC.W   1         ; Revision
    DC.L   0         ; Segment

* The next MAXFONTNAME bytes are a placeholder.  The name of the font
* contents file (e.g. "suits.font") will be copied here after this font
* descriptor is LoadSeg-ed into memory.  The Name field could have been
* left blank, but inserting the font name and size (or style) allows one to
* tell something about the font by using "Type OPT H" on the file.

fontName:
    DC.B      "suits8"    ; Name

* If your assembler needs an absolute value in place of the "length"
* variable, simply count the number of characters in Name and use that.

length  EQU     *-fontName           ; Assembler calculates Name's length.
        DCB.B   MAXFONTNAME-length,0 ; Padding of null characters.

font:
    DC.L  0          ; ln_Succ       * The rest of the information is a
    DC.L  0          ; ln_Pred       * TextFont structure.  See the
    DC.B  NT_FONT    ; ln_Type       * "graphics/text.i" include file for
    DC.B  0          ; ln_Pri        * more information.
    DC.L  fontName   ; ln_Name
    DC.L  0          ; mn_ReplyPort
    DC.W  0          ; (Reserved for 1.4 system use.)
    DC.W  8          ; tf_YSize
    DC.B  0          ; tf_Style
    DC.B  FPF_DESIGNED!FPF_PROPORTIONAL!FPF_DISKFONT ; tf_Flags
    DC.W  14         ; tf_XSize
    DC.W  6          ; tf_Baseline  <----* tf_Baseline must be no greater
    DC.W  1          ; tf_BoldSmear      * than tf_YSize-1, otherwise
    DC.W  0          ; tf_Accessors      * algorithmically-generated styles
    DC.B  97         ; tf_LoChar         * (italic in particular) can
    DC.B  100        ; tf_HiChar         *  corrupt system memory.
    DC.L  fontData   ; tf_CharData
    DC.W  8          ; tf_Modulo  <- * add this to the data pointer to go
                     ;               * from one row of a character to the
                                     * next row of it.
    DC.L  fontLoc    ; tf_CharLoc <------* bit position in the font data
    DC.L  fontSpace  ; tf_CharSpace      * at which the character begins.
    DC.L  fontKern   ; tf_CharKern

* The four characters of this font define the four playing-card suit
* symbols.  The heart, club, diamond, and spade map to the lower-case ASCII
* characters 'a', 'b', 'c', and 'd' respectively The fifth entry in the
* table is the character to be output when there is no entry defined in the
* character set for the requested ASCII value.  Font data is bit-packed
* edge to edge to save space.

fontData:                             ;   97 (a)       98 (b)       99 (c)   100 (d)      255
    DC.W  $071C0,$08040,$070FF,$0F000 ; <        X        X    X        X        >
    DC.W  $0FBE3,$0E0E0,$0F8C0,$03000 ;  .@@@...@@@.  .....@.....  ...@...  ....@@@....  @@@@@@@@@@@@
    DC.W  $07FCF,$0F9F3,$026C0,$03000 ;  @@@@@.@@@@@  ...@@@@@...  ..@@@..  ...@@@@@...  @@........@@
    DC.W  $03F9F,$0FFFF,$0FFC0,$03000 ;  .@@@@@@@@@.  .@@@@@@@@@.  .@@@@@.  .@@..@..@@.  @@........@@
    DC.W  $01F0E,$0B9F3,$026C0,$03000 ;  ..@@@@@@@..  @@@@@@@@@@@  @@@@@@@  @@@@@@@@@@@  @@........@@
    DC.W  $00E00,$080E0,$020C0,$03000 ;  ...@@@@@...  .@@@.@.@@@.  .@@@@@.  .@@..@..@@.  @@........@@
    DC.W  $00403,$0E040,$0F8FF,$0F000 ;  ....@@@....  .....@.....  ..@@@..  .....@.....  @@........@@
    DC.W  $00000,$00000,$00000,$00000 ;  .....@.....  ...@@@@@...  ...@...  ...@@@@@...  @@@@@@@@@@@@
    DC.W  $00000,$00000,$00000,$00000 ;  ...........  ...........  .......  ...........  ............

fontLoc:              ; The fontLoc information is used to "unpack" the
    DC.L  $00000000B  ; fontData. Each pair of words specifies how the
    DC.L  $0000B000B  ; characters are bit-packed.  For example, the first
    DC.L  $000160007  ; character starts at bit position 0x0000, and is
    DC.L  $0001D000B  ; 0x000B (11) bits wide.  The second character starts
    DC.L  $00028000C  ; at bit position 0x000B and is 0x000B bits wide, and
                      ; so on.  This tellsthe font handler how to unpack
                      ; the bits from the array.

fontSpace:                      ; fontSpace array:  Use a space this wide
    DC.W  000012,000012         ; to contain this character when it is
    DC.W  000008,000012,000013  ; printed.  For reverse-path fonts these
                                ; values would be small or negative.

fontKern:                       ; fontKern array:  Place a space this wide
    DC.W  000001,000001         ; after the corresponding character to
    DC.W  000001,000001,000001  ; separate it from the following character.
                                ; For reverse-path fonts these values would
                                ; be large negative numbers, approximately
                                ; the width of the characters.
fontEnd:
    END