7 Jan
2023
7 Jan
'23
8:04 a.m.
Grant Taylor wrote:
Oh, isn't this you?
https://twitter.com/DrScriptt/status/1187958760901414913
I'm not that surprised that soft fonts are
(re)using Sixel.
Maybe the other way around. I don't really know what the timeline was,
but it seems to me maybe soft fonts came first, with the VT220. The
VT240 had sixel graphics, right? But I'm guessing it came later. As
would the VT340.
I suspect that means that XTerm could support soft
fonts if some minor
changes were made to re-use it's existing Sixel support.
Probably. I had the good fortune to meet the person who first added
sixel graphics to XTerm, and he mentioned it is on his to-do list.
It would also be interesting to make a faithful VT220 emulator that runs
the original ROMs.
But apparently
you saw that already!
Nope. But I have now. :-)