Add a character generation phase to the xkcd-script process - and generate many new characters 🎉 - #54
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…ghtly larger than the sample, and therefore often end up getting thinner strokes when they get scaled down
…s covering most European languages. All marks are sourced from existing hand-drawn glyphs to preserve consistent pen weight: - Acute (Á É Í Ó Ú Ý…) and grave (À È Ì Ò Ù…) — strokes extracted from hand-drawn Ő - Diaeresis (Ä Ë Ï Ö Ü…) and dot above (Ċ Ė Ġ Ż…) — dots extracted from hand-drawn Ü - Macron (Ā Ē Ī Ō Ū…) — stroke extracted from hand-drawn Ē - Caron (Č Ě Ň Ř Š Ž Ď Ť…) — from asciicircum, flipped - Circumflex (Â Ê Î Ô Û…) — from asciicircum - Tilde (Ã Ñ Õ…) — from asciitilde - Ring above (Ů ů) — extracted from hand-drawn Å - Double acute (Ő Ű…) — two acute strokes composed - Cedilla (Ç Ş Ţ…) — from comma placed below - Backtick and quote aliases (` ´ ‛ ‟ ′ ″ ‵) mapped as references to existing glyphs
…om the existing glyphs (pt4), then we add derived characters (pt5), tweak the properties (pt6), then generate all of the formats (pt7)
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x is a better size. q is better weight.
the qu could always be improved....
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Closes #38 and #29.
A comment from @dummy-index in #11 (comment) also highlights some of the characters that were missing. I am not certain if I have got all of them covered in this PR, but I will follow-up with a check.