Compacting¶

Compacting is the process of taking every "bitmap" character texture provided by a Minecraft font provider and storing it in as little space as possible. Generally, this means:

1. Finding the largest effective dimension out of all the characters

2. Expanding the dimensions of all other character textures to fit those new dimensions

3. Creating a new texture that will fit all characters in those dimensions

4. Sequencing them one-after-another while ignoring characters with a blank texture

5. Creating a new "chars" list that corresponds with the compacted texture

mcfonts providers functions for compacting provider(s), glyphs, and images into a single, cohesive texture.

All use the same steps as given above.