UNIFONTCHOJUNG(1)

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💖 UNIFONTCHOJUNG — the manual, but make it cute 💖

okay so bestie, we're talking about unifontchojung from the General Commands Manual. it's a little command-line icon and honestly it's giving "niche Hangul font tool that understood the assignment". let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

unifontchojung — pulls out the Hangul syllables that have no final consonant. that's it, that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

unifontchojung < input-font.hex > output-font.hex

yes, it's literally that simple. in goes a font, out comes a font. no flags, no drama, no options to memorise. she ate and left no crumbs 🔥

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea, bestie. unifontchojung reads a Unifont-format .hex font file from STDIN and writes a Unifont .hex file to STDOUT — but not the whole thing, just a subset.

and what's in that subset? only the syllables that have an initial consonant (chojung) plus a middle vowel (jungseong), with no final consonant (jongseong). periodt. 🫶

why would you even want that? because it lets a font designer lock in and focus on this specific subset during font creation. main character energy for the chojung girlies only 👑

ngl this is genuinely such a nice workflow hack — you get a clean, scoped canvas instead of drowning in every syllable shape at once.

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • *.bdf font files

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole friend group, fr fr — go say hi to all of them:

💜 AUTHOR 💜

unifontchojung was written by Paul Hardy. shoutout to Paul, absolute legend, no cap 🫡

👑 LICENSE 👑

unifontchojung is Copyright © 2012 Paul Hardy.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

so yeah — free as in freedom, bestie. use it, share it, remix it, slay ✨

💀 BUGS 💀

No known bugs exist.

not me being shook?? a program with a clean record?? iconic behaviour honestly 🙈✨

and that's the whole page, babe 🍓 this manual is from 2012 Mar 02, and the source is the UNIFONTCHOJUNG(1) page out of the General Commands Manual. mwah, go make some beautiful Hangul fonts 💖🧚

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