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Article #532Re: Hershey fonts and X11
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 1989 02:37
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 1989 02:37
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In article <47258461.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> oj@apollo.hp.com (Ollie Jones writes: >People have told me that the X11R2 font complement (X11 fonts with names such >as vg-31 and vxms-37) appear to be rasterized versions of the Hershey >fonts. I'm told that many of the XV11R2 font bitmaps came from Lisp Machines, >Inc., prior to the demise of that company. Another possible source for rasterized Hershey fonts from MIT is the rasterized Hershey fonts U of Toronto distributed a decade ago as part of its Versatec-typesetting software. (Later distributed, without credit, in 4BSD.) (We know MIT had this stuff, because it seems to have gone to Berkeley via MIT, losing the U of T credits in the process.) -- Mars can wait: we've barely | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology started exploring the Moon. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.fonts Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Hershey fonts and X11 Message-ID: <1989Dec3.023720.11016@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1888@onion.reading.ac.uk> <47258461.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> Date: Sun, 3 Dec 89 02:37:20 GMT