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by zimpenfish 236 days ago
Slightly disappointed there's no Tasword 2 (page 3 of [0]) tiny font shenanigans to horizontally extend the visible screen space.

There's Vaticanus[1][2] on a (mostly) 4x6 grid for 64x32. Or Tiny Talk[3] on a 5x5 grid for 51x38 if you prefer slightly more height.

[0] https://ia902300.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/4/...

[1] https://www.fontspace.com/vaticanus-font-f128585

[2] With some tweaks to characters and using 2px for space[4], I think you can get e.g. "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." into 158px (61.7% of a line) instead of 344px. One of the headlines shown ("[2] Is Postgres read heavy or write heavy?" would fit into 149px (58.2% line) rather than being truncated to "[2] Is Postgres read heavy or..."

[3] https://v3x3d.itch.io/tiny-talk

[4] https://git.rjp.is/rjp/zx-vaticanus-spacing

2 comments

Maybe this could help show 64 chars per line: https://chuntey.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/64-column-print/
Excellent, thanks[0].

[0] Although slightly distressing because I certainly read this at the time and typed it in to play around with but had lost all memory of it. Ah, age.

-edit-: Also I had completely forgotten all about the channels and streams shenanigans.

> Slightly disappointed there's no Tasword 2 (page 3 of [0]) tiny font shenanigans to horizontally extend the visible screen space.

I thought the same thing.