vfont.h

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/*                         V F O N T . H
 * BRL-CAD
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2004-2024 United States Government as represented by
 * the U.S. Army Research Laboratory.
 *
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/** @addtogroup bu_vfont
 *
 * @brief
 * Provide a machine-independent interface to files containing
 * Berkeley VFONT format vector fonts, stored with VAX byte ordering and word
 * alignment.
 *
 * This header file describes the in-memory format used by the BRL-CAD
 * Package routines for manipulating fonts stored in the Berkeley
 * VFONT format.
 *
 * Note that the VFONT files are in the format found on a VAX -- no
 * conversion has been applied.
 *
 * Merely TARing or RCPing the VAX /usr/lib/vfont directory onto any
 * machine suffices to install the fonts.
 *
 * The VAX format of the fonts is invisible to software actually using
 * the fonts, except to be aware that bit zero in a byte of font data
 * is on the right hand side (lsb).
 *
 * The VAX declaration of the file is:
 *
 *      struct header {
 *              short magic;
 *              unsigned short size;
 *              short maxx;
 *              short maxy;
 *              short xtend;
 *      };
 *      struct dispatch {
 *              unsigned short addr;
 *              short nbytes;
 *              char up, down, left, right;
 *              short width;
 *      };
 *      char bits[header.size];
 *
 * The char fields up, down, left, and right in the VAX-version
 * of struct dispatch are signed.  Use the SXT macro to extend the sign.
 *
 * The actual bits array has the upper left corner of the bitmap in
 * the first byte.  Bits are scanned out of the bytes in a
 * left-to-right, top-to-bottom order (most decidedly non-VAX style).
 * Never seems to be any consistency in data formats.
 *
 */
/** @{ */
/** @file include/bu/vfont.h */
 
#ifndef BU_VFONT_H
#define BU_VFONT_H
 
#include "common.h"
 
#include "bu/defines.h"
 
#define SXT(c) ((c)|((c&0x80)?(~0xFF):0))
 
struct vfont_dispatch  {
    unsigned short vd_addr;
    short vd_nbytes;
    short vd_up;
    short vd_down;
    short vd_left;
    short vd_right;
    short vd_width;
};
struct vfont {
    short vf_maxx;
    short vf_maxy;
    short vf_xtend;
    struct vfont_dispatch vf_dispatch[256];
    char *vf_bits;
};
#define VFONT_NULL ((struct vfont *)NULL)
 
__BEGIN_DECLS
 
/**
 * Fetch the named font, and return a struct vfont pointer.
 *
 * First the filename provided is used, then the BRL-CAD font
 * directory is searched (for places where "system" directories are
 * considered sacred), and then finally the ordinary font directory is
 * searched.
 *
 * The font files are treated as pure byte streams, and are expected
 * to be in VAX order.
 *
 * VFONT_NULL is returned on error.  On ordinary errors, the function
 * is silent.  On extraordinary errors, a remark is placed on stderr.
 */
BU_EXPORT extern struct vfont *vfont_get(char *font);
 
/**
 * Return the storage associated with a struct vfont
 */
BU_EXPORT extern void vfont_free(struct vfont *font);
 
__END_DECLS
 
#endif /* BU_VFONT_H */
 
/** @} */
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