From 7c067b602e9c449bb67d2743ea6f50fa54f12c20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Entinger <consulting@lxrobotics.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 10:43:13 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Update font generator script to work with python 3.x

---
 extras/generate_font.py | 31 ++++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/extras/generate_font.py b/extras/generate_font.py
index de786e5..016f634 100755
--- a/extras/generate_font.py
+++ b/extras/generate_font.py
@@ -60,22 +60,27 @@
 
 out = open(output, "w")
 
-print >> out, "#include \"Font.h\""
-print >> out
-print >> out, "const struct Font %s = {" % ( name )
-print >> out, "  %d," % ( fontWidth )
-print >> out, "  %d," % ( fontHeight )
-print >> out, "  (const uint8_t*[]){"
+out.write("#include \"Font.h\"\n")
+out.write("\n")
+out.write("const struct Font %s = {" % ( name ))
+out.write("\n")
+out.write("  %d," % ( fontWidth ))
+out.write("\n")
+out.write("  %d," % ( fontHeight ))
+out.write("\n")
+out.write("  (const uint8_t*[]){\n")
 for c in range (0, 255):
 	if None == fontCharacters[c]:
-		print >> out, "    NULL,"
+		out.write("    NULL,\n")
 	else:
-		print >> out, "    // %s" % (fontCharacterNames[c])
-		print >> out, "    (const uint8_t[]){"
+		out.write("    // %s" % (fontCharacterNames[c]))
+		out.write("\n")
+		out.write("    (const uint8_t[]){\n")
 		for i in range(0, fontHeight):
-			print >> out, "      0b%s," % ('{0:08b}'.format(fontCharacters[c][i]))
-		print >> out, "    },"
-print >> out, "  }"
-print >> out, "};"
+			out.write("      0b%s," % ('{0:08b}'.format(fontCharacters[c][i])))
+			out.write("\n")
+		out.write("    },\n")
+out.write("  }\n")
+out.write("};\n")
 
 out.close()

From 8d32f4edf46d335a289c33c184480830a5695255 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Entinger <consulting@lxrobotics.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 10:45:33 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Add minimum documentation on how to generate a font
 bitmap.

---
 README.adoc | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc
index a77a80e..eeee79b 100644
--- a/README.adoc
+++ b/README.adoc
@@ -28,3 +28,10 @@ Lesser General Public License for more details.
 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
 License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
 Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
+
+== How-to generate bitmaps from the fonts ==
+[source,bash]
+----
+cd extra
+./generate_font.py 5x7.bdf Font_5x7.c Font_5x7
+----