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[comp.fonts] Chinese font in .bdf format

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From: Greg Lee
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 1990 21:00
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Archive-name: zhongwen/how-to-get
Original-posting-by: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee)
Original-subject: Re: Chinese characters
Archive-site: hanauma.stanford.edu [36.51.0.16]
Archive-directory: pub/zhongwen
Archive-files: *
Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)

From article <24270@gryphon.COM>, by richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton):
" In what formats (laserjet, Postscipt, IBM screen fonts etc)
" are Chinese characters available in ?

Would you post a summary, if you get some info?

There is a 24x24 bitmap Chinese font in .bdf format that can be ftp'd
from hanauma.stanford.edu, or at least there was a short time ago.  I
append to the end of this message the Bourne shell script I used to
retrieve it, for reference.  This font is intended for use with X
windows as a screen font, but with what specific piece of software, I
don't know.  I renumbered the characters and compiled the font to the X
.snf format, and found that it can be displayed with kterm,
the X application for displaying Japanese, except the 24x24 size is too
large.

I have some programs to manipulate this 24x24 data into .tfm/.300pk
form for use with TeX, or rather a modified form of JTeX.

There are bitmapped Chinese fonts available also with JingBai Wang's
word processing software, which he has advertised in comp.text
and soc.culture.china.  There are 14x14, 16x16, 24x24, and 48x48
sizes.

And that's all I know.
				Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu
#!/bin/sh

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb
Program=`basename $0`
Netrc=${HOME}/.netrc
rm -f $Netrc

Host=$HOST
Login="anonymous"
Password="guest"
Transfer="binary"

Ddir="pub/zhongwen"
every="*"
Host="hanauma.stanford.edu"
Get="mget"

echo "machine $Host, login $Login, password $Password" > $Netrc
chmod 600 $Netrc

date
echo $Transfer transfer of $Host::$Ddir/$Remote
ftp -v -i $Host << END_FTP
$Transfer
cd $Ddir
$Get $every
bye
END_FTP
echo ' '
rm -f $Netrc

exit 0
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From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee)
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Subject: [comp.fonts] Chinese font in .bdf format
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