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- This directory contains the public domain Hershey font data, distributed on
- the USENET network.
-
- The Hershey Fonts were originally created by Dr. A. V. Hershey while
- working at the U. S. National Bureau of Standards.
-
- The format of the Font data in this distribution
- was originally created by:
- James Hurt
- Cognition, Inc.
- 900 Technology Park Drive
- Billerica, MA 01821
- (mit-eddie!ci-dandelion!hurt)
-
- The data is stored in the file hersh.oc, and the file hersh.or. Each glyph
- in the font file is stored as a record. For example, glyph 2 has the entry:
-
- 2 16MWOMOV ROMSMUNUPSQ ROQSQURUUSVOV
-
- The first 5 characters are the glyph number (2), and the following 3 are the
- number of data pairs (16). The remaining characters are (x,y) pairs, each
- character representing an x (or y) motion. The characters are encoded
- relative to "R" which is zero (Q = -1, S = 1, etc). The first pair is a
- left and right offset for proportional spacing. The second pair is a move.
- The program takes a space in the x coordinate to mean that the next pen
- motion is a move. Thus the line above encodes:
-
- <glyph 2> <#pairs 16>
- <spacing -5, 5> (MW)
- (skip) (-3,-5) (OM)
- (draw) (-3, 4) (OV)
- <skip> (-3,-5) (OM)
- <draw> ( 1,-5) (SM)
- <draw> ( 3,-4) (UN)
- <draw> ( 3,-2) (UP)
- <draw> ( 1,-1) (SQ)
- <skip> (-3,-1) (OQ)
- <draw> ( 1,-1) (SQ)
- <draw> ( 3, 0) (UR)
- <draw> ( 3, 3) (UU)
- <draw> ( 1, 4) (SV)
- <draw> (-3, 4) (OV)
-
- Note: some records contain new-lines whch should be ignored.
-
- The Occidental Characters.
-
- The file hersh.oc files contain approximately 19 different fonts in the
- A-Z alphabet plus greek and cyrillic, along with hundreds of special symbols,
- described generically below.
-
- Symbols:
- Mathematical (227-229,232,727-779,732,737-740,1227-1270,2227-2270,
- 1294-1412,2294-2295,2401-2412)
- Daggers (for footnotes, etc) (1276-1279, 2276-2279)
- Astronomical (1281-1293,2281-2293)
- Astrological (2301-2312)
- Musical (2317-2382)
- Typesetting (ffl,fl,fi sorts of things) (miscellaneous places)
- Miscellaneous (mostly in 741-909, but also elsewhere):
- - Playing card suits
- - Meteorology
- - Graphics (lines, curves)
- - Electrical
- - Geometric (shapes)
- - Cartographic
- - Naval
- - Agricultural
- - Highways
- - Etc...
-
- The Oriental Characters.
-
- The file hersh.or contains over 1000 Kanji, or Chinese characters,
- and the Japanese Hiragana and Katakana alphabets.
-
-