padascii2uniascii script and some notes in README

.gitignore

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 *~
 *.swp
 *.swo
+unifont
 

README.md

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+# Qunifont
+
+Qunifont is a [qunified](https://typotheque.genderfluid.space/fr/quni#quni) version of the [Unifont](https://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html)
+
+## Drawing new Qunifont glyphs (in pads)
+
+Download, extract and rename the last Unifont tar.gz file (https://unifoundry.com/pub/unifont/?C=M;O=D) to get access to the Unifont utilities scripts
+
+    curl https://unifoundry.com/pub/unifont/unifont-16.0.01/unifont-16.0.01.tar.gz -o unifont.tar.gz
+    tar -xvf unifont.tar.gz
+    mv unifont-16.0.01 unifont
+
+Draw glyphs in a pad following this format (hexadecimal identifier):
+
+    F4910:
+    ----------------
+    ----------------
+    ----------------
+    ----------------
+    ---#----######--
+    ---#---#------#-
+    ---#---#------#-
+    -##############-
+    ---#------------
+    ---#------------
+    ---#------------
+    ---#------------
+    ---#------------
+    ----##----------
+    ----------------
+    ----------------
+
+Run `padascii2uniascii` to download the pad's content and format it for the Unifont utilities (uniascii) 
+
+    ./padascii2uniascii.sh http://88.127.187.90:9001/p/qunifont > qunifont.txt
+
+Use the Unifont hex glyphs as a base file
+
+    cp unifont/font/planee00/unifont-base.hex qunifont.hex
+
+Convert uniascii to unihex and add them to the base file
+
+    ./unifont/src/hexdraw qunifont.txt  >> qunifont.hex
+
+Convert unihex to bdf
+
+    ./unifont/src/hex2bdf qunifont.hex > qunifont.bdf
+
+TODO: convert to OTF, add OpenType features, change metadata
+
+## Other useful commands
+
+Convert unihex to png (-p for plage)
+
+    ./unifont/src/unihex2png -i qunifont.hex -o qunifont.png -p 0
+
+Convert unihex to sfd
+
+    ??? see https://www.venea.net/man/hex2sfd(1)
+
+Convert unihex to otf
+    
+    ./unifontsrc/hex2otf ??? 
+
+Print specific glyph in terminal from hexcode
+
+    printf %b\\n \\UF1010
+    󱀐
+
+    printf %b\\n \\UFFE1
+    ￡
+
+    printf %b\\n \\U1F480
+    💀

padascii2uniascii.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# remove php arguments from url
+url="${1%%\?*}"
+
+# download pad's /export/txt
+curl $url/export/txt > export.txt
+
+# remove the weird * from framapad txt export (framapad only)
+# sed -i 's/^*//' export.txt 
+
+# remove comments starting with //
+sed -i '/^\/\/*/d' export.txt
+
+# remove empty lines
+sed -i '/^[[:space:]]*$/d' export.txt
+
+## homogénéiser les pixels vides (points, espaces, tirets)
+## ???
+
+# add tabs to each lines starting by - or #
+sed -i 's/^[-|#]/\t&/' export.txt
+
+# add newline before glyph id
+sed -i '/:$/i\ ' export.txt
+
+# remove \n after glyph id
+sed -z 's/:\n/:/g' export.txt
+
+
+# the output should now be ready to use with the unifont utility "hexdraw"
+# hexdraw:convert a GNU Unifont .hex file to and from an ASCII text file