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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Format of Hershey fonts needed
Keywords: font format
Message-ID: <1989Jul18.065222.11852@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 18 Jul 89 06:52:22 GMT
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Reply-To: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY
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There is a xhershey program in the Clarkson archive that displays
Hershey characters in an X window and generates MF code. Sorry I forget
the directory.

The description of the format by Snoopy is correct. As stated, the y
offset of the baseline is not in the per character information. It
varies, but is generally some small constant, e.g. 9, over a set of
characters in a given style.

Also this format is not the original format as it comes off the tapes.
Apparently this "centered around R encoding" was invented for Usenet
distribution by the Hershey Font Consortium (or something like that), a
body of people who chipped in enough money to buy a tape, distributed
the fonts, and thereafter dissolved the consortium.