Font Name

Font Name by Author Name

Bulk generator

This is mainly intended for generating levelpic lumps for a vanilla WAD, but it may have other clever uses as well. (Tip: You can write a completely fake MAPINFO with whatever keys you want, and levelpic for the filenames.)

If a setting isn't mentioned here, the value from the main generator is used. You can safely close this dialog to change those settings without losing anything here.

Escapees

"Escapees" are characters like Й in the Doom Menu font, which peek above what the font claims is its top edge (or, similarly, characters like Ç which go below the font's claimed height).

This is admittedly a niche setting, and it usually won't affect English text, but there's no obvious "correct" behavior. Also the name "escapee" is made up, but there doesn't seem to be a clear typesetting term for this.

This also impacts the handling of mixed fonts, especially the "Make all lines the same height" checkbox.

Some options are "size preserving", in the sense that no matter how you change the text within a line, the output image will always be the same size.

• Use normal line height — Do nothing special. Overheight characters will extend into line spacing or neighboring lines.

  The first and last lines may be expanded to avoid cutting characters off (but not if they could fit inside the padding).

• Force normal line height — Do nothing special. Overheight characters will extend into line spacing or neighboring lines. This is size-preserving.

  If the first and last lines contain overheight characters, they may be cut off (but can extend into padding, if present).

• Use maximum line height — Expand the line height to fit every possible character from every font that's used. This is size-preserving.

• Expand to fit — If any overheight characters are used, expand as necessary to fit them within the line.

• Shrink to fit — Like "Expand to fit", but if none of the characters in a line fill the whole line height, discard the unused space. You can see the effect of this with the Doom Menu font and a lowercase message; the empty space at the top of the line will be discarded.

  This uses the physical size of the characters, so it won't discard rows of transparent pixels that are part of the actual character bitmap.

plain text

No special behavior. Whatever you type is exactly what gets rendered.

ACS string escapes

More or less compatible with ZDoom's ACS Print function.

The main use for this is to easily change colors with \c sequences, which are listed in the color table.

Full list of supported escapes:

• \cX — Set the color, using a letter to identify a standard translation.
• \c[NAME] — Set the color by name.
• \x00 — Insert a Latin-1 character using a two-digit hex code.
• \000 — Insert a Latin-1 character using a three-digit octal code. This is some ancient C nonsense. Don't use it.
• \\ — Insert a literal backslash.
• \n — Insert a line break.
• \" — Insert a quotation mark.

bbcode

Uses HTML-like tags, with square brackets, like so: [font=doom menu]Ultra-Violence[/font].

Tags don't need to be closed (they're assumed to all close at the end of the message), but if you do close them, they have to nest correctly — that is, close the innermost tag first.

Use [[ or ]] for a literal square bracket.

Supported tags:

• [color=...] — Set the color. Argument is the name of a translation in the "color" list, the word none, or a hex code in the form #rrggbb (in which case a translation will be auto-generated based on it).
• [font=...] — Set the font. Fonts are identified by their display names, and the first font that contains all the given words is chosen. For example, [font=jen b] will select Jenocide Big.
• [kerning=...] — Set the extra horizontal space between characters. Argument is a positive or negative integer.
• [spacing=...] — Set the extra vertical space between lines. Argument is a positive or negative integer. Note that this only affects line breaks that occur inside the tag, whether physical or due to word wrap.