Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Path: 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

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.)
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Mars can wait:  we've barely   |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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