laser-lovers@uw-beaver (04/09/85)
From: William LeFebvre <phil@rice.ARPA>
The U.S. Department of Commerce publishes a document describing the
Hershey font repertory. These fonts (in their original form) are
vector fonts--that is, the characters are made up of line segments.
Curves are simulated with several connected short lines. The document
is called "A Contribution to Computer Typesetting Techniques" and is
available for the modest fee of $7.50. The fonts themselves are in the
public domain, since they were developed by the National Bureau of
Standards. They aren't particularly pretty, but they are good for some
purposes. The repertory contains roman, italic, greek, script,
cyrillic, and german styles, as well as many, many, many special
characters. They also will send you a mag tape containing the actual
bits describing the vectors. The contents of the tape are also part of
the document. The format is very simple minded: ascii (primarily
numbers, spaces, and colons). It is very easy to use on a vector
device, but if you want to build raster files from it, you need a
program that will draw lines for you (such as the symmetric DDA).
Write to:
U.S. Department of Commerce
National Technical Information Service
5285 Port Royal Road
Springfield, VA 22161
Hope this helps,
William LeFebvre
Department of Computer Science
Rice University
<phil@Rice.arpa>