On Sat, 7 Jan 2023 07:34:26 -0700
Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
> Vt240 had graphics. But the LA50 also had sixel graphics, as did the
> vt125. Regis graphics was built on sixels :)
ReGIS graphics is a vector language, not sixel-based.
On 1/7/23 1:04 AM, Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk wrote:
Maybe the other way around. I don't really know what the timeline
was, but it seems to me maybe soft fonts came first, with the VT220.
The VT240 had sixel graphics, right? But I'm guessing it came later.
As would the VT340.
ACK
Probably.
On Sat, Jan 7, 2023, 1:04 AM Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Grant Taylor wrote:
> > I'm not that surprised that soft fonts are (re)using Sixel.
>
> Maybe the other way around. I don't really know what the timeline was,
> but it seems to me maybe soft fonts came first,
Grant Taylor wrote:
> I'm not that surprised that soft fonts are (re)using Sixel.
Maybe the other way around. I don't really know what the timeline was,
but it seems to me maybe soft fonts came first, with the VT220. The
VT240 had sixel graphics, right? But I'm guessing it came later. As
would
On 1/6/23 11:39 AM, Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk wrote:
It started with an idea about sixel graphics, but I repurposed it.
Ah. That makes sense.
VT220 (and followups) use sixels for soft fonts.
Interesting.
I've done some with Sixel, more than most, less than some, but my XTerm,
which does
Grant Taylor wrote:
>> https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/sixel
> The naming of the git repository confused me a bit. I needed more
> coffee and time to realize that this is more about soft fonts (the
> thread subject) than it is about Sixel graphics.
It started with an idea about sixel graphics,
On 1/6/23 2:34 AM, Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk wrote:
I have successfully done that with a real VT220. Here are some .txt
files with samples. They upload a custom font and arrange characters on
screen to display a picture. The Emacs Lisp code does the conversion.
https://github.com/larsbrinkhof
> On Jan 6, 2023, at 2:28 AM, Wayne S via cctalk wrote:
>
> You want to look at this manual.
> https://vt100.net/docs/vt220-rm
> Vt100 doesn't support soft char sets but vt220 on does.
Or here:
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/standards/EL-SM070-00_DEC_STD_070_Video_Systems_Reference_Manual_Dec
David Griffith wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how to created and load a "soft character
> set" into a vt220 terminal.
I have successfully done that with a real VT220. Here are some .txt
files with samples. They upload a custom font and arrange characters on
screen to display a picture. The E
See here: https://vt100.net/dec/vt320/fonts
You simply type the files from the command prompt and the escape sequences
in the file tell the terminal to load the font data rather than display it
on the screen.
Mark.
On Fri, 6 Jan 2023 at 07:28, Wayne S via cctalk
wrote:
> You want to look at th
You want to look at this manual.
https://vt100.net/docs/vt220-rm
Vt100 doesn't support soft char sets but vt220 on does.
Wayne
> On Jan 5, 2023, at 10:46 PM, David Griffith via cctalk
> wrote:
>
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to created and load a "soft character set" into
> a vt220 ter
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