Beebe@SCIENCE.UTAH.EDU ("Nelson H.F. Beebe") (08/07/87)
When I was in Tokyo 2 years ago, I visited the Japanese Standards Institute and bought the last copy in stock of the JISCII bitmap fonts on floppy disk. The floppy has been decoded here at Utah, and I am willing to make available the fonts and a small amount of additional software which can be used to display them, PROVIDED I DON'T HAVE TO DO THE WORK MYSELF. What this means is that I will put them in a directory accessible for public Internet ANONYMOUS FTP access. I will not mail out tapes or floppies (I already do lots of that). If some kind soul wishes to copy them to other machines for public retrieval, then thank you in advance. In addition to the JISCII bitmap fonts, I also have the Hershey Kanji and Kuno Chinese stroke character collections, and will make them available in the same way. Approximate sizes: Hershey+Kuno (text data): 550Kb JISCII bitmaps (binary data): 892Kb Software: 100Kb Effective use of the JISCII bitmaps requires a copy of JIS C 6234 "24-dots Matrix Character Patterns for Dot Matrix Printers", (Yen 3000) JIS C 6226 "Code of the Japanese Graphic Character Set for Information Interchange", (Yen 1450) These may be ordered from Japanese Standards Association 1-24, Akasaka 4-chome, Minato-ku Tokyo 107 Japan Quoted prices are presumably subject to change. They may also be available through interlibrary loan. A student here developed an Emacs-like editor which can display both Kanji and Romaji (English) on a Tektronix 4100 series graphics terminal. That editor is available from him. I will forward such requests to him, and leave it up to him to announce his own software. Please respond to me directly via Email if you are interested. -------