13ff48bf5SDavid du Colombier<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> 27dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier<html> 37dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier<head> 47dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier<title>Hershey fonts for Ghostscript</title> 5*593dc095SDavid du Colombier<!-- $Id: Hershey.htm,v 1.5 2002/02/21 21:36:33 giles Exp $ --> 67dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier<!-- Originally: hershey.txt --> 73ff48bf5SDavid du Colombier<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="gs.css" title="Ghostscript Style"> 87dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier</head> 97dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 107dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier<body> 117dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier<!-- [1.0 begin visible header] ============================================ --> 127dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 137dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier<!-- [1.1 begin headline] ================================================== --> 147dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 153ff48bf5SDavid du Colombier<h1>Hershey fonts for Ghostscript</h1> 167dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 177dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier<!-- [1.1 end headline] ==================================================== --> 187dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 197dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier<!-- [1.2 begin table of contents] ========================================= --> 207dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 217dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier<!-- [1.2 end table of contents] =========================================== --> 227dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 237dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier<!-- [1.3 begin hint] ====================================================== --> 247dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 257dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier<p> 267dd7cddfSDavid du ColombierThis file, unlike the rest of Ghostscript, consists entirely of information 273ff48bf5SDavid du Colombiercopied from public sources. It therefore is not covered by the 287dd7cddfSDavid du ColombierGhostscript copyright or license: it is in the public domain. 297dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 307dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier<p>For other information, see the <a href="Readme.htm">Ghostscript 317dd7cddfSDavid du Colombieroverview</a>. You can also read about <a href="Fonts.htm">Ghostscript 327dd7cddfSDavid du Colombierfonts</a> in general. 337dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 347dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier<!-- [1.3 end hint] ======================================================== --> 357dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 367dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier<hr> 377dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 387dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier<!-- [1.0 end visible header] ============================================== --> 397dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 407dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier<!-- [2.0 begin contents] ================================================== --> 417dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 427dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier<pre> 437dd7cddfSDavid du ColombierMod.sources: Volume 4, Issue 42 447dd7cddfSDavid du ColombierSubmitted by: pyramid!octopus!pete (Pete Holzmann) 457dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 467dd7cddfSDavid du ColombierThis is part 1 of five parts of the first Usenet distribution of 477dd7cddfSDavid du Colombierthe Hershey Fonts. See the README file for more details. 487dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 497dd7cddfSDavid du ColombierPeter Holzmann, Octopus Enterprises 507dd7cddfSDavid du ColombierUSPS: 19611 La Mar Court, Cupertino, CA 95014 517dd7cddfSDavid du ColombierUUCP: {hplabs!hpdsd,pyramid}!octopus!pete 527dd7cddfSDavid du ColombierPhone: 408/996-7746 537dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 547dd7cddfSDavid du ColombierThis distribution is made possible through the collective encouragement 557dd7cddfSDavid du Colombierof the Usenet Font Consortium, a mailing list that sprang to life to get 567dd7cddfSDavid du Colombierthis accomplished and that will now most likely disappear into the mists 577dd7cddfSDavid du Colombierof time... Thanks are especially due to Jim Hurt, who provided the packed 587dd7cddfSDavid du Colombierfont data for the distribution, along with a lot of other help. 597dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 607dd7cddfSDavid du ColombierThis file describes the Hershey Fonts in general, along with a description of 617dd7cddfSDavid du Colombierthe other files in this distribution and a simple re-distribution restriction. 627dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 637dd7cddfSDavid du ColombierUSE RESTRICTION: 647dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier This distribution of the Hershey Fonts may be used by anyone for 657dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier any purpose, commercial or otherwise, providing that: 667dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 1. The following acknowledgements must be distributed with 677dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier the font data: 687dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier - The Hershey Fonts were originally created by Dr. 697dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier A. V. Hershey while working at the U. S. 707dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier National Bureau of Standards. 717dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier - The format of the Font data in this distribution 727dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier was originally created by 737dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier James Hurt 747dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier Cognition, Inc. 757dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 900 Technology Park Drive 767dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier Billerica, MA 01821 777dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier (mit-eddie!ci-dandelion!hurt) 787dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 2. The font data in this distribution may be converted into 797dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier any other format *EXCEPT* the format distributed by 807dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier the U.S. NTIS (which organization holds the rights 817dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier to the distribution and use of the font data in that 827dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier particular format). Not that anybody would really 837dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier *want* to use their format... each point is described 847dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier in eight bytes as "xxx yyy:", where xxx and yyy are 857dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier the coordinate values as ASCII numbers. 867dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 877dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier*PLEASE* be reassured: The legal implications of NTIS' attempt to control 887dd7cddfSDavid du Colombiera particular form of the Hershey Fonts *are* troubling. HOWEVER: We have 897dd7cddfSDavid du Colombierbeen endlessly and repeatedly assured by NTIS that they do not care what 907dd7cddfSDavid du Colombierwe do with our version of the font data, they do not want to know about it, 917dd7cddfSDavid du Colombierthey understand that we are distributing this information all over the world, 927dd7cddfSDavid du Colombieretc etc etc... but because it isn't in their *exact* distribution format, they 937dd7cddfSDavid du Colombierjust don't care!!! So go ahead and use the data with a clear conscience! (If 947dd7cddfSDavid du Colombieryou feel bad about it, take a smaller deduction for something on your taxes 957dd7cddfSDavid du Colombiernext week...) 967dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 977dd7cddfSDavid du ColombierThe Hershey Fonts: 987dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier - are a set of more than 2000 glyph (symbol) descriptions in vector 997dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier ( <x,y> point-to-point ) format 1007dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier - can be grouped as almost 20 'occidental' (english, greek, 1017dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier cyrillic) fonts, 3 or more 'oriental' (Kanji, Hiragana, 1027dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier and Katakana) fonts, and a few hundred miscellaneous 1037dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier symbols (mathematical, musical, cartographic, etc etc) 1047dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier - are suitable for typographic quality output on a vector device 1057dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier (such as a plotter) when used at an appropriate scale. 1067dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier - were digitized by Dr. A. V. Hershey while working for the U.S. 1077dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier Government National Bureau of Standards (NBS). 1087dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier - are in the public domain, with a few caveats: 1097dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier - They are available from NTIS (National Technical Info. 1107dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier Service) in a computer-readable from which is *not* 1117dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier in the public domain. This format is described in 1127dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier a hardcopy publication "Tables of Coordinates for 1137dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier Hershey's Repertory of Occidental Type Fonts and 1147dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier Graphic Symbols" available from NTIS for less than 1157dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier $20 US (phone number +1 703 487 4763). 1167dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier - NTIS does not care about and doesn't want to know about 1177dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier what happens to Hershey Font data that is not 1187dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier distributed in their exact format. 1197dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier - This distribution is not in the NTIS format, and thus is 1207dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier only subject to the simple restriction described 1217dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier at the top of this file. 1227dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 1237dd7cddfSDavid du ColombierHard Copy samples of the Hershey Fonts are best obtained by purchasing the 1247dd7cddfSDavid du Colombierbook described above from NTIS. It contains a sample of all of the Occidental 1257dd7cddfSDavid du Colombiersymbols (but none of the Oriental symbols). 1267dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 1277dd7cddfSDavid du ColombierThis distribution: 1287dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier - contains 1297dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier * a complete copy of the Font data using the original 1307dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier glyph-numbering sequence 1317dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier * a set of translation tables that could be used to generate 1327dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier ASCII-sequence fonts in various typestyles 1337dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier * a couple of sample programs in C and Fortran that are 1347dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier capable of parsing the font data and displaying it 1357dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier on a graphic device (we recommend that if you 1367dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier wish to write programs using the fonts, you should 1377dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier hack up one of these until it works on your system) 1387dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 1397dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier - consists of the following files... 1407dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier hershey.doc - details of the font data format, typestyles and 1417dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier symbols included, etc. 1427dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier hersh.oc[1-4] - The Occidental font data (these files can 1437dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier be catenated into one large database) 1447dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier hersh.or[1-4] - The Oriental font data (likewise here) 1457dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier *.hmp - Occidental font map files. Each file is a translation 1467dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier table from Hershey glyph numbers to ASCII 1477dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier sequence for a particular typestyle. 1487dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier hershey.f77 - A fortran program that reads and displays all 1497dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier of the glyphs in a Hershey font file. 1507dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier hershey.c - The same, in C, using GKS, for MS-DOS and the 1517dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier PC-Color Graphics Adaptor. 1527dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 1537dd7cddfSDavid du ColombierAdditional Work To Be Done (volunteers welcome!): 1547dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 1557dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier - Integrate this complete set of data with the hershey font typesetting 1567dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier program recently distributed to mod.sources 1577dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier - Come up with an integrated data structure and supporting routines 1587dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier that make use of the ASCII translation tables 1597dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier - Digitize additional characters for the few places where non-ideal 1607dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier symbol substitutions were made in the ASCII translation tables. 1617dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier - Make a version of the demo program (hershey.c or hershey.f77) that 1627dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier uses the standard Un*x plot routines. 1637dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier - Write a banner-style program using Hershey Fonts for input and 1647dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier non-graphic terminals or printers for output. 1657dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier - Anything else you'd like! 1667dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 1677dd7cddfSDavid du ColombierThis file provides a brief description of the contents of the Occidental 1687dd7cddfSDavid du ColombierHershey Font Files. For a complete listing of the fonts in hard copy, order 1697dd7cddfSDavid du ColombierNBS Special Publication 424, "A contribution to computer typesetting 1707dd7cddfSDavid du Colombiertechniques: Tables of Coordinates for Hershey's Repertory of Occidental 1717dd7cddfSDavid du ColombierType Fonts and Graphic Symbols". You can get it from NTIS (phone number is 1727dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier+1 703 487 4763) for less than twenty dollars US. 1737dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 1747dd7cddfSDavid du ColombierBasic Glyph (symbol) data: 1757dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 1767dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier hersh.oc1 - numbers 1 to 1199 1777dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier hersh.oc2 - numbers 1200 to 2499 1787dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier hersh.oc3 - numbers 2500 to 3199 1797dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier hersh.oc4 - numbers 3200 to 3999 1807dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 1817dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier These four files contain approximately 19 different fonts in 1827dd7cddfSDavid du Colombierthe A-Z alphabet plus greek and cyrillic, along with hundreds of special 1837dd7cddfSDavid du Colombiersymbols, described generically below. 1847dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 1857dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier There are also four files of Oriental fonts (hersh.or[1-4]). These 1867dd7cddfSDavid du Colombierfiles contain symbols from three Japanese alphabets (Kanji, Hiragana, and 1877dd7cddfSDavid du ColombierKatakana). It is unknown what other symbols may be contained therein, nor 1887dd7cddfSDavid du Colombieris it known what order the symbols are in (I don't know Japanese!). 1897dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 1907dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier Back to the Occidental files: 1917dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 1927dd7cddfSDavid du ColombierFonts: 1937dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier Roman: Plain, Simplex, Duplex, Complex Small, Complex, Triplex 1947dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier Italic: Complex Small, Complex, Triplex 1957dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier Script: Simplex, Complex 1967dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier Gothic: German, English, Italian 1977dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier Greek: Plain, Simplex, Complex Small, Complex 1987dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier Cyrillic: Complex 1997dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 2007dd7cddfSDavid du ColombierSymbols: 2017dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier Mathematical (227-229,232,727-779,732,737-740,1227-1270,2227-2270, 2027dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 1294-1412,2294-2295,2401-2412) 2037dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier Daggers (for footnotes, etc) (1276-1279, 2276-2279) 2047dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier Astronomical (1281-1293,2281-2293) 2057dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier Astrological (2301-2312) 2067dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier Musical (2317-2382) 2077dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier Typesetting (ffl,fl,fi sorts of things) (miscellaneous places) 2087dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier Miscellaneous (mostly in 741-909, but also elsewhere): 2097dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier - Playing card suits 2107dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier - Meteorology 2117dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier - Graphics (lines, curves) 2127dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier - Electrical 2137dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier - Geometric (shapes) 2147dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier - Cartographic 2157dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier - Naval 2167dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier - Agricultural 2177dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier - Highways 2187dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier - Etc... 2197dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 2207dd7cddfSDavid du ColombierASCII sequence translation files: 2217dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 2227dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier The Hershey glyphs, while in a particular order, are not in an 2237dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier ASCII sequence. I have provided translation files that give the 2247dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier sequence of glyph numbers that will most closely approximate the 2257dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier ASCII printing sequence (from space through ~, with the degree 2267dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier circle tacked on at the end) for each of the above fonts: 2277dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 2287dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier File names are made up of fffffftt.hmp, 2297dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 2307dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier where ffffff is the font style, one of: 2317dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier roman Roman 2327dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier greek Greek 2337dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier italic Italic 2347dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier script Script 2357dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier cyril Cyrillic (some characters not placed in 2367dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier the ASCII sequence) 2377dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier gothgr Gothic German 2387dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier gothgb Gothic English 2397dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier gothit Gothic Italian 2407dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 2417dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier and tt is the font type, one of: 2427dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier p Plain (very small, no lower case) 2437dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier s Simplex (plain, normal size, no serifs) 2447dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier d Duplex (normal size, no serifs, doubled lines) 2457dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier c Complex (normal size, serifs, doubled lines) 2467dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier t Triplex (normal size, serifs, tripled lines) 2477dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier cs Complex Small (Complex, smaller than normal size) 2487dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 2497dd7cddfSDavid du ColombierThe three sizes are coded with particular base line (bottom of a capital 2507dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier letter) and cap line (top of a capital letter) values for 'y': 2517dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 2527dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier Size Base Line Cap Line 2537dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 2547dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier Very Small -5 +4 2557dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier Small -6 +7 2567dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier Normal -9 +12 2577dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 2587dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier (Note: some glyphs in the 'Very Small' fonts are actually 'Small') 2597dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 2607dd7cddfSDavid du ColombierThe top line and bottom line, which are normally used to define vertical 2617dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier spacing, are not given. Maybe somebody can determine appropriate 2627dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier values for these! 2637dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 2647dd7cddfSDavid du ColombierThe left line and right line, which are used to define horizontal spacing, 2657dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier are provided with each character in the database. 2667dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 2677dd7cddfSDavid du ColombierFormat of Hershey glyphs: 2687dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 2697dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier5 bytes - glyphnumber 2707dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier3 bytes - length of data length in 16-bit words including left&right numbers 2717dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier1 byte - x value of left margin 2727dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier1 byte - x value of right margin 2737dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier(length*2)-2 bytes - stroke data 2747dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 2757dd7cddfSDavid du Colombierleft&right margins and stroke data are biased by the value of the letter 'R' 2767dd7cddfSDavid du ColombierSubtract the letter 'R' to get the data. 2777dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 2787dd7cddfSDavid du Colombiere.g. if the data byte is 'R', the data is 0 2797dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier if the data byte is 'T', the data is +2 2807dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier if the data byte is 'J', the data is -8 2817dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 2827dd7cddfSDavid du Colombierand so on... 2837dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 2847dd7cddfSDavid du ColombierThe coordinate system is x-y, with the origin (0,0) in the center of the 2857dd7cddfSDavid du Colombierglyph. X increases to the right and y increases *down*. 2867dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 2877dd7cddfSDavid du ColombierThe stroke data is pairs of bytes, one byte for x followed by one byte for y. 2887dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 2893ff48bf5SDavid du ColombierAn 'R' in the stroke data indicates a 'lift pen and move' instruction. 2907dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier</pre> 2917dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 2927dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier<!-- [2.0 end contents] ==================================================== --> 2937dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 2947dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier<!-- [3.0 begin visible trailer] =========================================== --> 2957dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 2967dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier<hr> 2977dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 2983ff48bf5SDavid du Colombier<p> 2993ff48bf5SDavid du Colombier<small>Public Domain.</small> 3003ff48bf5SDavid du Colombier<small>Distributed with Ghostscript 6.50, November 2000</small> 3013ff48bf5SDavid du Colombier 3027dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier<!-- [3.0 end visible trailer] ============================================= --> 3037dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier 3047dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier</body> 3057dd7cddfSDavid du Colombier</html> 306