The postscript template had a hardcoded stipple length of 29, any more stipples would cause problems with a postscript parser. This was particularly a problem since the default mos.24bit.dstyle has 36 stipples already.
It also used a base-30 encoding.
I have updated the template to fix both issues, it now uses base-10 encoding, and can support up to 255 stipples (which is the maximum length allowed by the current approach of using fonts)
I was also wondering if it made more sense to encode this file directly into the C program as a literal, as half of it already is in the C program. (some "begin"s have an "end" in strings directly embedded in magic, so this file basically serves as a large string that has to be loaded each time from disk, while other parts of the string are stored normally in memory)
Ahmed Nematallah
Tim Edwards