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That was fast. Thank you!

TWBT allows for non-square fonts to be used in conjunction with square tilesets. The biggest advantage of non-square fonts is that they are easier to read. GemSet and DungeonSet both take advantage of this if you want to see an example. I'm working on one for Phoebus, and was planning on making one for Spacefox and Afro next, unless maybe Nopal would rather do it. Just something to consider.

If you want to make one, its tile height needs to be the same as the tile height of your main tilesheet, but the tile width should be more narrow. GemSet, for example, is a 24x24 tileset with a 16x24 font. It would probably look best to draw the text a little bit shorter on the TWBT text tilesheet so that there's a little more vertical space between the lines of text. I didn't do that with first draft for Phoebus, and wasn't happy with the way it looked. (seen in first spoiler below)

I hope fricy's is okay. I thought he would be back like a month ago. And with Toady having added some extra bits to Dwarf Fortress, it seems like that would have revived his interest.

These delays are really unacceptable. After each DF release, there should be an LNP version available within a week or so--even if it's just a stripped-down version containing only the utilities designed for the old DF that aren't too badly broken by the new one. Updated LNPs can then be released once the maintainers of utilities update their code.

I don't know if you've seen this already, but maybe one of these will meet your needs until fricy is able to update again. http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=158322.0 They don't have very many utilities in them, though.

I'm able to create a world and embark with these 34 files:

The Mac permissions section of the "Get Info" (properties) window is very basic. It only allows you to control which users can read and write to the file or folder. Apple probably didn't think that end users would need to know what an execution privilege is.

To add execution privileges in Macs:

• Open the Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app)
• In the Terminal window, type "chmod +x " (with that final space, but without the quotes)
• Drag the file that you wish to have execution privileges into the Terminal window.
• In the Terminal window, hit the "return" key.

Glad it helped! I'll include that launcher script (probably with minor tweaks) in future Rubble versions if you don't mind (with credit of course)

Yeah, that's fine.

Do you need to set the actual binary executable? I assume you do, but you never know...

Yes, the "rubble" and "rubble32" binaries need execution permission or else it will say "Permission denied". Sorry, I should have mentioned that before.

I think I may go ahead a write scripts that "install" the Linux and OSX versions by copying the binaries to the correct places and marking the scripts executable, less fuss and bother for everyone then, just change permissions on the "install" script and run.

A lot of Mac users might be uncomfortable using the terminal. Instead of having users run CLI commands, maybe you could apply the permissions to the Mac and Linux installer scripts on your Linux machine and tar just those two install scripts? I'm guessing the installer scripts would rarely need to be updated.

I'll be glad to test the Mac install script.

Ok. Thanks for the info Jecowa.

I appreciate that the people working on the update probably aren't getting paid for it, but am just wondering if there might be an estimated time frame for when I should be checking back to see if an update has come through. A week/a month/longer? 

Can anyone give a rough estimate?

A couple days ago LordBaal guessed 2 months. Then Lethosor (DFHack and Dwarf Therapist developer) said he was hoping to have it finished in less than 2 months. It's really hard to guess this stuff, though. From the conversation it sounds like it's going to be a while and that a 2-month wait isn't out-of-the-question.