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<Lord_Nightmare>
Foone_: i'm in the process of re-entering the corona ppc-400 font in fontstruct, at least in pure block form
<Lord_Nightmare>
i wish fontstruct had a way of importing data in a standard block file
<Lord_Nightmare>
it can export data in the proprietary 'glyphs' mac font editor format, but this is a surprisingly easy to parse xml format
<Foone_>
nifty
<Lord_Nightmare>
i figured out almost all of it just by looking at one xml file it put out, it might be possible to write a .glyphs to fontforge .sfd converter
<Lord_Nightmare>
but probably a fair bit of work
<Foone_>
I need to do more research into this subject, because people keep asking about exporting from the death generator into TTF fonts
<Foone_>
but that's gonna be really annoying to automate
<Lord_Nightmare>
i wonder how different the .glyphs format is to the .ufo format, as both are xml-based font formats
<Lord_Nightmare>
I've never seen a .ufo file
<Lord_Nightmare>
Foone_: btw i wrote a parser for the xerox alto .al font format
<Lord_Nightmare>
the 'oldest' of the formats for the alto
<Lord_Nightmare>
there's two newer digital pixel formats which are both bitblt based, but .al isn't
<Lord_Nightmare>
the oberon computer/os's font format seems to be based on a cleaned up version of the xerox .al format
<Lord_Nightmare>
i haven't fully reverse engineered that one though