Re: Text in Graphic Display

Robert Miller wrote:

Great! I'll see if I can get that to run on the MSP430. I don't have
hardware yet so I'll
have to fudge the output to the PC's screen. I'll keep you posted.

I've added the plot.f file for Win32Forth for graphical output:

http://www.frank-buss.de/forth/plot.f.txt

but it is even possible with ANS Forth in ASCII :-)

: plot at-xy [char] * emit ;

6 to scale 0 15 move-to s" Forth" hershey-draw-string

********** * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* **** * **** ****** * ***
* * * * * * * * **
* * * ** * *** *
******* * * ** * * *
* * * * * * *
* * * * * * *
* * * * * * *
* * * * * * *
* * * * * * *
* * ** * * * *
* ** * * * * *
* **** * *** * *

By the way, what sort of font ( IE. Arial, Times, Courier etc.) is
represented by your list of glyphs?

It is a sans serif font, but I don't know the other properties of the font.
You can find more information and other fonts with the same format with
Google:

http://www.google.com/search?q=hershey+font

The character set in my implementation:

http://www.frank-buss.de/tmp/hershey.png

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