@riley I am aware of that, I just don’t know how to do that with emojis.
This:
Could probably be more like this:
But I don’t know the widths of the space character on your app or browser. So, maybe this looks like crap for you or others.
@riley I am aware of that, I just don’t know how to do that with emojis.
This:
Could probably be more like this:
But I don’t know the widths of the space character on your app or browser. So, maybe this looks like crap for you or others.
father
work
Note that the ninth line is used for ‘desenders’ only (for lack of a better word) and can be left out for creation of the screen font.
@riley This is fun, though.
@riley Okay, I found this: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Das_Buch_der_Schrift_(Faulmann)_051.jpg
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Das_Buch_der_Schrift_(Faulmann)_052.jpg
I can still do it in six lines:
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@riley Oh, I see. Hmm. If you put two symbols on top of each other like diacritics, I guess my system would still work, you just need two printer lines for one line of text.
But I admit that’s neither good nor an answer to your original question.
What is the amount of valid symbol combinations? I guess, encoding might be the bottleneck in retro computing.
@riley I don’t pretend to know anything about demotic; I just looked it up in the Wikipedia. But at first glance the symbol for h̭ looked like the most complicated one (on the y axis), and I guess that can be easily recreated in a rough pixel font as:
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@riley Five?