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                     Inter-Office 1Y1emoranduflI

      To             Cyprians                                 Date            January 29) 1976


      From           Tesler, Merry, Sproull,
                     Lampson, Ingalls                         location        Palo Alto


      Subject        Font Format                              .Organization   PARe


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      This memo explains how we arrived at a font format that is twice as compact as .A L format and is
      easy to use with l3itI3lt.

      Backgroufl{}

      Everybody who ever tried to make the Alto do graphics wondered why there was .no BitBlt, so now
      there is one, and it is wonderful for moving rectangles around the screen, making gray boxes, and
      painting. But some of us have been less than delighted with its use for "scan conversion of    ll


      characters. This has been a surprise, because we always thought of BitBlt as a way of making
      character display easier.

      The Tnh!enu Scheme

      Our first idea long ago was to have something like the 8 character wide by 16 character high
      Tableau of the Smalltalk font editor. a bitmap tiled with the characters of a font. \-Vith ascii 0
      placed in the upper left corner, one can easily find the upper-left-origin source rectangle of any
      character by:

                source x = fontmaxwidth * (ascii & 7)                         <--
                source



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