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From: mjr@osiris.UUCP (Marcus J. Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Postscript fonts for Japanese characters ?
Message-ID: <1483@osiris.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 87 17:30:58 GMT
References: <1491@tulum.swatsun.UUCP> <10441@emerald.BBN.COM>
Organization: Institute For Felinographical Studies
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Summary: hershey fonts available with "oriental" chars

In article <10441@emerald.BBN.COM>, hlison@bbn.com (Herb Lison) writes:
> I too would be interested in any ways available to print and/or display
>Kanji and kana

	The Hershey fonts come with several large files of bitmapped "oriental"
fonts. Unfortunately none of them are mapped to character equivalences, and I
don't know my way around the alphabets enough to do this. The Hershey fonts 
also come with tools for converting the bitmaps into PostScript-able fonts,
etc, etc, etc.

	If you want the Hershey stuff, you might want to post to
comp.sources.wanted or make arrangements to get 'em from me somehow. It's
not proprietary stuff, for a few odd reasons. 

	Note - for you laser-lovers, the Hershey fonts also include several
sets of map symbols, dingbats, and European fonts, including old english,
script fonts, cyrillic, etc. If you have TRANSCRIPT source code, I can also
send you notes on the mods to the Makefiles, ditroff, etc, that I made to
allow us to use them all with ditroff. Main disadvantage is - it is slow as
hell to download 12Kb of font before your file...  Output is lovely, though.
Technical papers have a certain "je ne sais quoi" when printed in odd fonts...

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