From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Japanese Font
From: "rob pike" <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Thu,  8 Feb 2001 22:14:37 -0500
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Pack the characters as tightly as you can without overlap.  The associated
width information (Fontchar) has sufficient information to extract them.
	tweak /lib/font/bit/lucidasans/lsb.24
(or any other subfont file) to see what a subfont looks like.

If you have a routine that can extract a single character image from the
.bdf file, then draw() is all you need to pack the pixels.

-rob