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README.md

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+# mkfont.sh but better
+
+here's what i use to generate comic code fonts
+
+    ./mkfont.sh Comic-Code-Ligatures-Regular 12 1 ~/comic-code-ligatures-regular-12.png 8 14
+    ./mkfont.sh Comic-Code-Ligatures-Regular 14 1 ~/comic-code-ligatures-regular-14.png 9 16
+    ./mkfont.sh Comic-Code-Ligatures-Regular 16 1 ~/comic-code-ligatures-regular-16.png 10 18
+    ./mkfont.sh Comic-Code-Ligatures-Regular 24 1 ~/comic-code-ligatures-regular-24.png 15 26
+    ./mkfont.sh Comic-Code-Ligatures-Regular 28 1 ~/comic-code-ligatures-regular-28.png 17 30
+    ./mkfont.sh Comic-Code-Ligatures-Regular 32 2 ~/comic-code-ligatures-regular-32.png 20 36

mkfont.sh

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+#!/usr/bin/bash
+#
+# copyright (c) 2013 by Roderick W. Smith
+#
+# This program is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 3,
+# or (at your option) any later version.
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+# Program to generate a PNG file suitable for use as a rEFInd font
+# To obtain a list of available font names, type:
+#
+# convert -list font | less
+#
+# The font used MUST be a monospaced font; searching for the string
+# "Mono" will turn up most suitable candidates.
+#
+# Usage:
+# ./mkfont.sh font-name font-size font-Y-offset bitmap-filename.png
+#
+# This script is part of the rEFInd package. Version numbers refer to
+# the rEFInd version with which the script was released.
+#
+# Version history:
+#
+#  0.6.6  -  Initial release
+
+if [[ $# != 4 ]] && [[ $# != 6 ]]; then
+   echo "Usage: $0 font-name font-size y-offset bitmap-filename.png [char-width char-height]"
+   echo "   font-name: Name of font (use 'convert -list font | less' to get list)"
+   echo "              NOTE: Font MUST be monospaced!"
+   echo "   font-size: Font size in points"
+   echo "   y-offset: pixels font is shifted (may be negative)"
+   echo "   bitmap-filename.png: output filename"
+   echo "   char-{width, height}: size of canvas to render the image onto"
+   echo ""
+   exit 1
+fi
+
+Convert="$(command -v convert 2> /dev/null)"
+if [[ ! -x $Convert ]] ; then
+   echo "The 'convert' program is required but could not be found. It's part of the"
+   echo "ImagMagick program, usually installed in the 'imagemagick' package."
+   echo ""
+   exit 1
+fi
+
+Height=${6:-$2}
+let CellWidth=(${Height}*6+5)/10
+CellWidth=${5:-$CellWidth}
+#let CellWidth=(${Height}*5)/10
+let Width=${CellWidth}*96
+echo $Width $Height $CellWidth $CellHeight
+echo "Creating ${Width}x${Height} font bitmap...."
+
+# create a folder to store our temporary renders of each character
+dir="$4-temp"
+[ -d $dir ] || mkdir $dir
+
+# render each character
+chars=" !\"#\$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\\]^_\`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~?"
+#echo $chars
+for (( i=0; i<${#chars}; i++ )); do
+   char="${chars:$i:1}"
+   char="${char//"\\"/"\\\\"}"
+   char="${char//"'"/"\'"}"
+   $Convert -size ${CellWidth}x${Height} xc:transparent -gravity NorthWest -font $1 -pointsize $2 \
+      -draw "text 0,$3 '$char'" "$dir/$(printf %03d $i).png"
+done
+
+# stitch together
+$Convert +append "$dir"/*.png $4
+
+rm -r "$dir"
+echo woo