Template talk:Diagram/sandbox

One of the problems is that DF uses its own font. It's difficult to mimic the DF interface exactly with other fonts. I'm getting frustrated enough that I've actually considered cutting up curses_800x600.png into 256 different little images with transparent backgrounds and using them to build these diagrams. Won't work, of course, but short of making a custom font directly from the default DF font image, and somehow making the browser download it automatically, I don't see what I can do. Hussell 02:45, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

I think the image strategy would work, except we wouldn't have control over the foreground color (resp. background color if we did it backwards). It would be strange if it were impossible to get another font to line up end to end. After all, it happens naturally when putting text into the edit box here. VengefulDonut 03:00, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

The difficulty isn't end-to-end. That works fine. The problem is getting the bottom of one line to touch the top of the next. Several of the monospace fonts seem to have different heights for different characters (e.g., ┼ vs █▓▒░), which leads to problems either with overlapping or gaps, depending on how the line-height is set. Hussell 03:06, 3 December 2009 (UTC)