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These are the sources for the xhershey tool. Most things are explained
in the man page. Here are a few notes:

Xhershey expects one character description per line in the database.
The Usenet database will have to have lines joined first. join.icn and
chk.icn are short Icon programs to join lines and check the database
for internal consistency respectively. Something similar can be cooked
up with awk or C, I'm sure.

There are a few example spec files thrown in this distribution for
Script and three styles of Gothic. The fonts are passable but of
indifferent quality. They should be balanced in size and weight a
little w.r.t.  CM or whatever font family you are using before being
released. Also I don't think it is a good idea to mix in punctuation
symbols from other styles, even though they fill holes in the Script
and Gothic map.  Some playing around with the pen specs may be a good
idea. I just didn't have the time.

Speaking of MF files, the parameter files are stolen from those for
CMR. These may not be the best. Again, have fun experimenting.

In my opinion, the Hershey fonts are good value for money (free), but I
have been consistently disappointed in my attempts to make them good
fonts for TeX and other high-quality formatters. They just lack enough
characters, that little bit of necessary character information or that
touch of polish and it would be time consuming to tune the fonts. If
you just want some strange screen fonts or previewing fonts for vector
displays, Hershey may be ok for you.

I'd be interested in any bug reports or improvements, but I doubt if I
will have much time to respond appropriately. In other words, this
software is provided as is and you are on your own.

	Ken Yap
	November 1988

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 Parent Directory                                            -   
 README                                 08-Mar-1991 01:00  1.7K  
 acwtosc.exe                            27-Nov-1991 01:00  4.8K  
 acwtosc.pas                            24-Jul-1991 02:00  2.2K  
 chk.icn                                08-Mar-1991 01:00  177   
 font.c                                 08-Mar-1991 01:00  965   
 font.h                                 08-Mar-1991 01:00   42   
 hershey-test.tex                       24-Jul-1991 02:00  228   
 hershey.exe                            27-Nov-1991 01:00  6.6K  
 hershey.pas                            24-Jul-1991 02:00  4.1K  
 hershey.txh                            24-Jul-1991 02:00  1.3K  
 hershey10.mf                           08-Mar-1991 01:00  3.6K  
 hgoe.spec                              08-Mar-1991 01:00  868   
 hgoe10.mf                              08-Mar-1991 01:00  144   
 hgog.spec                              08-Mar-1991 01:00  880   
 hgog10.mf                              08-Mar-1991 01:00  142   
 hgoi.spec                              08-Mar-1991 01:00  868   
 hgoi10.mf                              08-Mar-1991 01:00  144   
 hscs.mf                                08-Mar-1991 01:00   40K  
 hscs.spec                              08-Mar-1991 01:00  666   
 hscs10.mf                              08-Mar-1991 01:00  167   
 join.icn                               08-Mar-1991 01:00  153   
 makefile                               08-Mar-1991 01:00  658   
 metrics.mf                             08-Mar-1991 01:00  302   
 occident                               08-Mar-1991 01:00  107K  
 orient.mf                              24-Jul-1991 02:00  4.2K  
 oriental                               08-Mar-1991 01:00  105K  
 parse.c                                08-Mar-1991 01:00  2.9K  
 parse.h                                08-Mar-1991 01:00  799   
 pen.mf                                 08-Mar-1991 01:00  206   
 xhershey.1                             08-Mar-1991 01:00  3.7K  
 xhershey.c                             08-Mar-1991 01:00  7.6K  
 xhershey.exe                           27-Nov-1991 01:00   17K  

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