From 7027ad989c1bcdbd2a9eab8c7d419eda590a0204 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "B. Watson" <urchlay@slackware.uk>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 01:16:59 -0400
Subject: fonts/* and fauxtari.{rst,7} added. still WIP.

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+========
+fauxtari
+========
+
+------------------------------------------------
+Atari 8-bit-based font for Linux console and X11
+------------------------------------------------
+
+.. include:: manhdr7.rst
+
+DESCRIPTION
+===========
+
+**fauxtari** is a set of monospaced bitmap fonts for use with the
+Linux console or X11. Most of the glyphs are taken from the Atari
+XL/XE ROM font; see **GLYPHS**, below.
+
+APPEARANCE
+==========
+
+The console (**psf** files) and X11 (**bdf** files) fonts each come
+in 3 sizes: 8x8 (original size), 16x16 (scaled 2x), and 24x24 (scaled
+3x). The scaling has no interpolation or antialiasing, so the larger
+fonts have a blocky "retro" look.
+
+The appearance of the font is also vertically squashed, since it was
+designed for non-square pixels (NTSC and PAL "pixels" are slightly
+taller than they are wide). This allows you to fit a *lot* of text
+on the screen, in the console or with a fullscreen X terminal:
+
+.. csv-table::
+
+  "Font Size", "Display Size", "Characters"
+  "8x8", "1280x1024", "160x128"
+  "8x8", "1920x1080", "240x135"
+  "8x8", "3840x2160", "480x270"
+  "16x16", "1280x1024", "80x64"
+  "16x16", "1920x1080", "120x67"
+  "16x16", "3840x2160", "240x135"
+  "24x24", "1280x1024", "53x42"
+  "24x24", "1920x1080", "80x45"
+  "24x24", "3840x2160", "160x90"
+
+Of course, the smaller font sizes might be too small to read, especially
+on smaller displays.
+
+CONSOLE
+=======
+
+If the **psf** fonts have been installed to the standard console font
+directory (usually **/usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/**; this is done by
+**make install** when **bw-atari8-tools** is built), you can use e.g.::
+
+  setfont fauxtari-16
+
+Replace the 16 with 8 or 24, for the other sizes. For Slackware Linux,
+you can make this the default in **/etc/rc.d/rc.font**, or just put it
+in **/etc/rc.d/rc.local**. Other Linux distributions will have their
+own ways to set this up (especially systemd-based ones).
+
+X11
+===
+
+If the **bdf** fonts have been installed (via **make install** when
+**bw-atari8-tools** is built), you should be able to launch a terminal
+via::
+
+  xterm -fn fauxtari-16
+
+Replace the 16 with 8 or 24, for the other sizes. These names are
+aliases (added to **fonts.alias** in the font directory); the full
+names are:
+
+- TODO
+
+GLYPHS
+======
+
+All 3 sizes contain the same set of glyphs. These include:
+
+- Printable ASCII. Complete. Mostly taken from the Atari 800XL ROM
+  ($E000 area), except the **~** **{** **}** **`** characters which are
+  missing from the Atari's character set (these were hand-drawn by the
+  author).
+
+- Unicode mappings for ATASCII graphics characters. Complete set. These
+  work well with **listbas**\(1), **a8cat**\(1), and **a8xd**\(1). The glyphs
+  are taken from the 800XL ROM.
+
+- The XL International Character set (umlauted/accented letters, plus 
+  the **¡** character and the British pound sign), taken from the 800XL ROM
+  ($CC00 area).
+
+- Arabic, taken from Atari's Arabic model of the 65XE. Only the
+  isolated and terminal letter forms are included, but these are
+  also mapped to the Unicode codepoints for the initial and medial forms.
+  Hopefully this results in readable Arabic text. The creator of
+  **fauxtari** can't read Arabic at all and doesn't know anyone who
+  can, so some of the character mappings may be wrong.
+
+- Hebrew glyphs, the complete aleph-bet, taken from the Hebrew ROM
+  modification that was available for sale in Israel in the early 1980s.
+  I'm almost 100% certain this was a 3rd-party product, not made by Atari.
+
+- Polish accented letters, taken from a Polish XL ROM found on the Web
+  at some point. No idea who created this or whether it was homebrew or
+  commercial.
+
+- A few extra Latin-1 characters, hand-drawn by the author. These include
+  Spanish punctuation (quotation marks, inverted question mark), the
+  copyright symbol, and the Euro currency sign.
+
+- TODO: Commodore 64 graphics characters.
+
+.. include:: manftr.rst
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