[Xastir] Different symbols for symbols with overlays

[Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)]

Hessu, author of aprs.fi, did some symbol work and has released his 
symbols for general use.  He's using SVG as a vector source which can 
then be rendered for use in older bitmap-based clients like xastir and 
APRSISCE/32.  If you're doing new symbols, it would seem to make sense 
to do them in a vector format that extends to the future and render them 
for use in xastir.

Just my $0.02 for whatever it is worth to you.

http://blog.aprs.fi/2015/11/new-symbol-graphics-and-better-support.html

https://github.com/hessu/aprs-symbols

Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32

On 10/15/2016 11:22 AM, Eric Christensen wrote:
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> On 10/14/2016 11:51 PM, Tom Russo wrote:
>> Xastir is not currently set up to support this.
>>
>> If you wanted to work on it, you'd also have to change the code to
>> do more than plop a character on top of an existing symbol.
> Okay, I'm thinking about an IF statement that would use a character
> overlay if there wasn't a defined symbol for that particular
> combination.  That way it would be backward compatible when a symbol
> wasn't defined.
>
> Is that sane?
>
> - --Eric
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