9-Oct-88 10:41:43-PDT,15203;000000000000 Return-Path: <@RELAY.CS.NET,@neat.ai.toronto.edu:jok@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> Date: Sun, 9 Oct 88 13:33:16 EDT From: Jeff Kesner Subject: Hershey fonts This submission is being sent in response to a question in texhax [#70]. I (jok@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu) am posting this submission for my father, Oliver. Consequently, everything after this paragraph is written by him. I will accept any responses and forward them to him. His interest in TeX revolves around multi-lingual (hobby) desktop publishing. Hershey fonts for the IBM PC are available from SoftCraft, Inc., and from Austin Code Works. The SoftCraft set consists of four separate databases: HERSHEY.CHR 1594 characters ORIENT.CHR 758 char. PERSIAN.CHR 135 char. HEBREW.CHR 49 char. The HERSHEY.CHR database includes, besides several Roman typefaces, Greek, Russian, German Fraktur, and a variety of graphic symbols; the ORIENT.CHR database has hiragana, katakana, and 623 kanji characters. The format of the SoftCraft Hershey databases is given in their "Font Editing: EFONT/CFONT User's Manual" on p. A5-2. Using this description, I wrote the following Turbo Pascal 4.0 program to generate METAFONT source code from the Hershey plotter directives: [the files have been separated and are in tex-fonts - mrd]