GEOS Font
GEOS Font files are multiple point size bitmaps stored in GEOS VLIR files; the chain number (0-126) is the point size. GEOS limits a font to a point size of 48. This is probably due to memory limitations for storing the font. Nonexistent point sizes have VLIR chain addresses of $00,$FF.
The header in each font file contains Font ID and point size information for the fonts in the file. This includes the FONT ID at offset $80 (128) within the header block, the 32 byte point size table at $82 (130) ordered from smallest to largest (padded with 0's), and the 32 byte font sizes at $61 (97) ordered from smallest to largest (padded with 0's). This leaves room for 16 fonts per font file.
Font files are identified by a unique ID number which is stored in the file's info sector at offset 130. The info sector contains a word identifier for each point size in the font. These identifiers have the form: ID# * 8 + point size. In other words, bits 15-6 represent the font number while bits 0-5 hold the point size. These ID words are used by GEOwrite and GEOpaint.
0 BSW 13 Tilden
1 University 14 Evans
2 California 15 Durant
3 Roma 16 Telegraph
4 Dwinelle 17 Superb
5 Cory 18 Bowditch
6 Tolman 19 Ormond
7 Bubble 20 Elmwood
8 Fontknox 21 Hearst
9 Harmon 21 Brennens (BUG)
10 Mykonos 23 Channing
11 Boalt 24 Putnam
12 Stadium 25 LeConte
Each VLIR in a font file is organized as follows:
OffSet Description
------- -------------------------------------------------------
$00 Number of pixels minus 1 above the underline. This is
the line of print.
$01-$02 Number of bytes in the bit stream.
$03 Point size, character height in pixels.
$04-$05 Index from beginning of font to table of bit stream
indices. Usually $0008.
$06-$07 Index from beginning of font to first bit stream.
$08-??? Table of words which are indices into the bit streams;
one for each character from space (32) to the tilde
(126). There is also an extra index on the end. This
extra index is needed because the difference between a
character's index and the next character's index is the
width of the character in pixels.
???-??? Pointed to by $06-$07. The font is stored as several
bit streams, one for each line of pixels. The point
size is the number of bit streams. All the character
images are stored in the bit stream. The GEOS KERNAL
has some very sophisticated bit manipulation routines
for accessing any given character.
(content taken from http://zimmers.net/geos/docs/fontfile.txt which is unattributed and has been floating around BBS and web sites for decades)
