How do you actually create ZStart fonts? I could never find a computer editor back in the days (there was none included with ZStart or it was missing?) and I liked ZStart fonts because they could be a different size than Omnicalc's.

How do you actually create ZStart fonts? I could never find a computer editor back in the days (there was none included with ZStart or it was missing?) and I liked ZStart fonts because they could be a different size than Omnicalc's.

It's set up as an 8x8 sprite. The bottom row is the length of the sprite I think, I don't know really, but if you look at the bottom row of each character it's hex value 05h. I found that you don't need that there so I just removed it for 00h to save program space. They also have a header. I don't know what it is off hand though but it's 5 bytes.

Wait. Your telling me that zStart fonts use the first byte for the width? I don't believe this to be  . Have you checked out the program? When I unpacked the hex data for one of them the pattern was 8 bytes with the 7th byte being 05h always (looking forward that is). So when I convert the fonts I just ClrDraw then draw the font based off of it's tile format and then data swap it with the empty font file with the appropriate tile format. Meaning the the first byte is whatever the data that is getting swapped is. The bottom row is blank but the font still works.