tools.cobbled-paths/README.md

# cobbled paths

from figlet2svgbob, creating contextual stroke font ready to plot.

this is called _cobbled paths_ as a reminder of the permeability between the discrete and the continuous.
smooth connected paths are made out of an extremely restrictive grid, like multiple blocky stones form a tortuous path.

## dependencies

* [vpype](https://github.com/abey79/vpype), for converting to HPGL, [Installation instructions](https://github.com/abey79/vpype#installation)

## font database

* figlet offical ftp at <ftp://ftp.figlet.org>
  * `ours` the original default font made by the developper and given with the program, in early 1993
  * `contributed` fonts made by figlet amateur and submitted to the official figlet ftp, from before 1993 to 2005
    * `c64` are fonts that are only made of the `#` character, the most black ascii char, is if it was a pixel
    * `bdffont` are fonts automatically made using bdf2figlet, converting [Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyph_Bitmap_Distribution_Format), often from adobe to `c64` like font.
* figlet font library of JavE (a free Ascii Editor), <http://www.jave.de/figlet/fonts.html>. those also include the figlet ftp native, they where sorted in order to keep only the uniques ones.


## todo

* redo catalogue!


* iframe per category for less computing time 
* left and right reload in draw & font
* input listen when opening page (for browser history remember)
* factorise JS
* factorise CSS
* show font-info file
* option to save as hpgl