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| author | David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu> | 2018-12-12 09:20:10 -0500 |
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| committer | David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu> | 2018-12-12 09:20:10 -0500 |
| commit | f16fed3d50fd3d56deb46a3d4641a81460e389de (patch) | |
| tree | 71659ed643b65eadb17110b3f8f0c5d5cfdd3031 /manuals/chickadee/Fonts.html | |
| parent | c4b418c2dcfba3c741f67058a51a3e490aa4b297 (diff) | |
Update Chickadee manual and home page for 0.3.0.
Better late than never!
Diffstat (limited to 'manuals/chickadee/Fonts.html')
| -rw-r--r-- | manuals/chickadee/Fonts.html | 38 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/manuals/chickadee/Fonts.html b/manuals/chickadee/Fonts.html index 198bddb..a4ed5c6 100644 --- a/manuals/chickadee/Fonts.html +++ b/manuals/chickadee/Fonts.html @@ -16,16 +16,16 @@ Foundation Web site at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html. The document was typeset with http://www.texinfo.org/ (GNU Texinfo). --> -<!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.3, http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> +<!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.5, http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> -<title>The Chickadee Game Toolkit: Fonts</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> +<title>Fonts (The Chickadee Game Toolkit)</title> -<meta name="description" content="The Chickadee Game Toolkit: Fonts"> -<meta name="keywords" content="The Chickadee Game Toolkit: Fonts"> +<meta name="description" content="Fonts (The Chickadee Game Toolkit)"> +<meta name="keywords" content="Fonts (The Chickadee Game Toolkit)"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="makeinfo"> -<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <link href="index.html#Top" rel="start" title="Top"> <link href="Index.html#Index" rel="index" title="Index"> <link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ Next: <a href="Blending-and-Depth-Testing.html#Blending-and-Depth-Testing" acces </div> <hr> <a name="Fonts-1"></a> -<h4 class="subsection">2.4.5 Fonts</h4> +<h4 class="subsection">2.3.6 Fonts</h4> <p>Unlike the traditional TrueType font format that many are accustomed to, Chickadee loads and renders bitmap fonts in the @@ -122,9 +122,7 @@ each font size needed. This is where the “signed distance field” rendering technique comes in. Introduced by <a href="http://www.valvesoftware.com/.../2007/SIGGRAPH2007_AlphaTestedMagnification.pdf">Valve</a> in 2007, signed distance field fonts can be efficiently stored in a bitmap and be rendered at arbitrary scale factors with good -results. Chickadee can render both traditional bitmap fonts and -signed distance field fonts. <em>Signed distance field font -rendering is not yet available, so be patient.</em> +results. </p> <p>While Chickadee does not yet offer a tool for converting TTF fonts into FNT fonts, tools such as @@ -135,44 +133,45 @@ in the meantime. font)</code> module. </p> <dl> -<dt><a name="index-load_002dfont"></a>Scheme Procedure: <strong>load-font</strong> <em><var>file</var></em></dt> +<dt><a name="index-load_002dfont"></a>Procedure: <strong>load-font</strong> <em><var>file</var></em></dt> <dd><p>Load the Angel Code formatted XML document in <var>file</var> and return a new font object. </p></dd></dl> <dl> -<dt><a name="index-font_003f"></a>Scheme Procedure: <strong>font?</strong> <em><var>obj</var></em></dt> +<dt><a name="index-font_003f"></a>Procedure: <strong>font?</strong> <em><var>obj</var></em></dt> <dd><p>Return <code>#t</code> if <var>obj</var> is a font object. </p></dd></dl> <dl> -<dt><a name="index-font_002dface"></a>Scheme Procedure: <strong>font-face</strong> <em><var>font</var></em></dt> +<dt><a name="index-font_002dface"></a>Procedure: <strong>font-face</strong> <em><var>font</var></em></dt> <dd><p>Return the name of <var>font</var>. </p></dd></dl> <dl> -<dt><a name="index-font_002dline_002dheight"></a>Scheme Procedure: <strong>font-line-height</strong> <em><var>font</var></em></dt> +<dt><a name="index-font_002dline_002dheight"></a>Procedure: <strong>font-line-height</strong> <em><var>font</var></em></dt> <dd><p>Return the line height of <var>font</var>. </p></dd></dl> <dl> -<dt><a name="index-font_002dline_002dheight-1"></a>Scheme Procedure: <strong>font-line-height</strong> <em><var>font</var></em></dt> +<dt><a name="index-font_002dline_002dheight-1"></a>Procedure: <strong>font-line-height</strong> <em><var>font</var></em></dt> <dd><p>Return the line height of <var>font</var>. </p></dd></dl> <dl> -<dt><a name="index-font_002dbold_003f"></a>Scheme Procedure: <strong>font-bold?</strong> <em><var>font</var></em></dt> +<dt><a name="index-font_002dbold_003f"></a>Procedure: <strong>font-bold?</strong> <em><var>font</var></em></dt> <dd><p>Return <code>#t</code> if <var>font</var> is a bold font. </p></dd></dl> <dl> -<dt><a name="index-font_002ditalic_003f"></a>Scheme Procedure: <strong>font-italic?</strong> <em><var>font</var></em></dt> +<dt><a name="index-font_002ditalic_003f"></a>Procedure: <strong>font-italic?</strong> <em><var>font</var></em></dt> <dd><p>Return <code>#t</code> if <var>font</var> is an italicized font. </p></dd></dl> <dl> -<dt><a name="index-draw_002dtext"></a>Scheme Procedure: <strong>draw-text</strong> <em><var>font</var> <var>text</var> <var>position</var></em></dt> -<dd><p>[#:scale] [#:rotation] [#:blend-mode] +<dt><a name="index-draw_002dtext"></a>Procedure: <strong>draw-text</strong> <em><var>font</var> <var>text</var> <var>position</var></em></dt> +<dd><p>[#:origin] [#:scale] [#:rotation] [#:blend-mode] + [#:start 0] [#:end <code>(string-length text)</code>] </p> <p>Draw the string <var>text</var> with the first character starting at <var>position</var> using <var>font</var>. @@ -181,6 +180,9 @@ new font object. <pre class="example">(draw-text font "Hello, world!" (vec2 128.0 128.0)) </pre></div> +<p>To render a substring of <var>text</var>, use the <var>start</var> and <var>end</var> +arguments. +</p> <p>Refer to <code>draw-sprite</code> (see <a href="Sprites.html#Sprites">Sprites</a>) for information about the other arguments. </p></dd></dl> |