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I thought somehow the animation was playing "by itself," but I guess it was accomplished by holding down the '.' key? The font code swaps a run of N dots with t

I thought somehow the animation was playing "by itself," but I guess it was accomplished by holding down the '.' key? The font code swaps a run of N dots with the glyph corresponding to the Nth frame of animation.

erk__ 3y ago
Yeah in retrospect I really should have added something like a overlay so it was possible to see what keys I pressed.
vultour 3y ago
As someone completely ignorant of the inner working of fonts, how is this different from ligatures? Those also produce special glyphs based on combinations.
- YoshiRulz 3y ago
  It's exactly ligatures. I presume the author avoided that term so you didn't confuse it with the ligatures that are included in Unicode.
- erk__ 3y ago
  Yes this is exactly ligature, I just became aware that it was possible to use wasm for them in HarfBuzz, if you want to see some wasm examples that is not possible with ligatures have a look at https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz-wasm-examples https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz-wasm-examples
Nzen 3y ago
Fontemon [0] makes this a bit more obvious by including a web page with the font embedded, so we can control the animation by typing, rather than watching someone else type. However, mmulet embeds some sort of Blender project [1], rather than a wasm binary to accomplish the font shaping. [0] https://www.coderelay.io/fontemon.html https://www.coderelay.io/fontemon.html [1] https://github.com/mmulet/code-relay/blob/main/markdown/Tutorial.md https://github.com/mmulet/code-relay/blob/main/markdown/Tuto...
- mmulet 3y ago
  So, the blender project was just used to create the game (set up each decision tree, and the position of all images), from there I compile everything into complex ligatures in the GSUB table. The wasm binary feature wasn’t around when I made fontemon, but it looks like it would have made development a lot easier!

erk__ 3y ago

Yeah in retrospect I really should have added something like a overlay so it was possible to see what keys I pressed.

vultour 3y ago

As someone completely ignorant of the inner working of fonts, how is this different from ligatures? Those also produce special glyphs based on combinations.

YoshiRulz 3y ago
It's exactly ligatures. I presume the author avoided that term so you didn't confuse it with the ligatures that are included in Unicode.
erk__ 3y ago
Yes this is exactly ligature, I just became aware that it was possible to use wasm for them in HarfBuzz, if you want to see some wasm examples that is not possible with ligatures have a look at https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz-wasm-examples https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz-wasm-examples

Nzen 3y ago

Fontemon [0] makes this a bit more obvious by including a web page with the font embedded, so we can control the animation by typing, rather than watching someone else type. However, mmulet embeds some sort of Blender project [1], rather than a wasm binary to accomplish the font shaping. [0] https://www.coderelay.io/fontemon.html https://www.coderelay.io/fontemon.html [1] https://github.com/mmulet/code-relay/blob/main/markdown/Tutorial.md https://github.com/mmulet/code-relay/blob/main/markdown/Tuto...

mmulet 3y ago
So, the blender project was just used to create the game (set up each decision tree, and the position of all images), from there I compile everything into complex ligatures in the GSUB table. The wasm binary feature wasn’t around when I made fontemon, but it looks like it would have made development a lot easier!