diff --git a/docs/AJF b/docs/AJF new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6558dfcf45 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/AJF @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +Description of the binary AJF font file format + +Index Descripton + +00 MAGIC1 (0xBD) +01 MAGIC2 (0xFC) used to make sure this is an ajf font +02 Unused, planned use: "code page" +03 - 22 ASCII text holding the font name +23 - 24 "bound width" (high 8 bits, low 8 bits) +25 - 26 "bound height" (high 8 bits, low 8 bits) +26 - 28 first character in the font +29 - 2a 0x00ff (supposed number of characters in the font?) +2b - map offset table starts here. Each offset entry is supposed to be + three bytes: width, offset highbyte, offset lowbyte + The offset is a relative offset, counted in bytes, to where in the + font data this particular char's bitmap image starts. + + font data, in Rockbox-internal image-format. That means column-wise + left-to-right for the full width, the first 8 pixels of height. Then + follows the next 8 pixels of height left-to-right. + + We don't currently support fonts larger than 16 pixels.