courier bitmap font support

[rbro]

Just looking for help if this is possible:

I've always preferred the bitmap font Courier at 10 point (coure.fon), not Courier New.

Courier has always worked well for me except it's missing the line drawing and other extended characters.

Is there a way to add the extra characters to a font like this?

Thank you for your help.

[Finii]

Nerd Fonts patches outline fonts. It also patches bitmap fonts, but only hybrid fonts and the patched in glyphs are outlines.

In principle it is of course possible to add the line drawing glyphs to a pure bitmap font.
Here is the font file I found:

If you keep the format (fnt) iirc you are limited to the 255 glyphs, but some slots are still free (7F - A0)

Depending on your usecase it might be better/easier to convert the bitmaps to outlines and use it with the correct size as ordinary outline font.

But in principle, open the font in fontforge, copy and paste the line drawing glyphs into the font and regenerate the new bitmap font. I do not know how buggy the bitmap code in fontforge is ;) but I guess chances are good this works.

[rbro]

Thank you. I was able to make it work by converting the fon to ttf first. If it helps others, my steps were:

1. Convert fon to bdf with fontforge.
2. Convert bdf to ttf with bitsnpicas.
3. Patch font using font-patcher.