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On 2023-08-14 17:10, Micah Waddoups wrote:

[...]

> procedure Unifont_Hex_To_Ada is

[...]

What are you going to do with this?

1. This is not a font usable in a GUI framework.

2. This is not a drawable in-memory image for a GUI framework either. 
Provided, you wanted to render obtained images manually. These images 
must be in a format supported by the corresponding engine.

E.g. GTK uses Pixbuf representation for drawable in-memory images. Which is

    type Pixbuf_Image is array (Natural range 0..N*M-1) of GUChar;
    pragma Convention (C, Pixbuf_Image);

containing 4 channels RGB + alpha, row-wise.

And, no, normally you cannot draw in an arbitrary OS window.

If you are so keen to use GNU Unifont, why do not you install it from 
its available formats like TrueType and be done with that? What is wrong 
with other fixed-size fonts?

Why do you want to render glyphs manually instead of using existing OS 
facilities and GUI libraries? You cannot get around these libraries 
without rewriting device drivers and who knows what else making the code 
highly non-portable.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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