README: fix typos; link "Building" section; prose

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Suraj N. Kurapati 2023-02-25 01:18:09 -08:00
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This is [my personal fork][1] of the wonderful [Tamsyn font by Scott Fial][2]. This is [my personal fork][1] of the wonderful [Tamsyn font by Scott Fial][2].
It is programatically forked from Tamsyn version 1.11 by the `Rakefile` script It's programmatically forked from Tamsyn version 1.11 by the `Rakefile` script
(see the "Building" section below) which backports glyphs from older versions (see *[Building](#building)* below) which backports glyphs from older versions
while deleting deliberately empty glyphs (which are marked as unimplemented) while deleting deliberately empty glyphs (which serve as unimplemented markers)
to allow secondary/fallback fonts to provide real glyphs at those codepoints. to allow secondary fallback fonts to provide real glyphs at those code points.
The "TamzenForPowerline" fonts provide additional [Powerline symbols][5], The "TamzenForPowerline" fonts contain additional [Powerline symbols][5] that
which are programatically injected with [ZyX_I's bitmap-font-patcher][6]. I initially generated using [ZyX_I's bitmap-font-patcher][6] and then later
I later hand-tweaked those symbols to perfection in the gbdfed(1) editor: hand-tuned to perfection using the gbdfed(1) graphical bitmap font editor:
* For all icons, I expanded them to occupy the maximum available space. * For all icons, I expanded them to occupy the maximum available space.
* For the fork icon ( U+E0A0), I made the branch larger than the trunk. * For the fork icon ( U+E0A0), I made the branch larger than the trunk.