[comp.sources.wanted] Seek Hershey Fonts

humphrys@apollo.uucp (John Humphrys) (03/03/88)

    Does anyone have or know where to get 
    the source to any Hershey fonts. I would 
    appreciate any information. If you do have
    the source(s) please post them in
    comp.sources.misc.

       Thanks in advance,

        John Humphrys 
        apollo!humphrys
        Apollo Computer 
        Chelmsford, MA
        (617) 256-6600 x7717

jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle) (03/05/88)

      The Hershey stroke fonts, and a number of other useful data files, such
as the KST fonts (139 fonts, specify TeX or bitmap format), various maps,
and Webster's Second Dictionary (words only) can be obtained from

	The Austin Code Works
	11100 Leafwood Lane
	Austin, Texas USA  78750-3409
	(512)-258-0785

which collects public domain software and distributes it for modest fees.
The Hershey fonts, for example, are $15.

      I once ordered something from these people, and it came, and it
worked.

					John Nagle

mmaclenn@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Mark MacLennan-Geog.) (03/06/88)

A version of the Hershey Fonts is available (at no charge)
from MOD.SOURCES over CSNET, Topic "hershey".  
It consists of 5 files. A sample Fortran program for plotting
them is also included.  An interesting additional entry also available
from this source is a C program to convert Hershey Fonts to 'vfont'
raster format (topic "her2vfont").
The original Hershey Fonts can still be purchased from the U.S.
government (through NTIS?) but I would recommend the above source
since it is the same data but formatted in a more convenient manner.