Re: [mkgmap-dev] Free-as-in-speech text-to-TYP converter

All we need is a bare-bones text-to-TYP converter. No GUI needed. Icons could be embedded in the text file in some one-character-per-pixel (ASCII graphics like) NetPBM format or imported from *.png files, if we want to be fancy (and do not mind having binary *.png files in our repository).

I agree we need a text to TYP converter. We already have code in mkgmap that was written by Thomas Lußnig three years ago that can read and write typ files, perhaps the time has come to put it to use! I shall write a program that takes the polish-style text input as in http://mkgmap-style-sheets.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/typ/world-test/default.t... and writes a TYP file using the existing typ code, then see what is needed beyond that. ..Steve