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- From: zeno@phylo.genetics.washington.edu (Sean Lamont)
- Newsgroups: comp.fonts
- Subject: Re: WANTED: Simple stupid pen-plotter-type font
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.180358.28937@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 18:03:58 GMT
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- >All I want for Christmas is ...
- >
- >... a pointer to an archive which contains a very basic
- >font package which would be useful for drawing very tiny
- >text. Something in which each character is described in
- >terms of a minimum number of floating-point vectors would
- >be splendiferous.
-
- I can't be too specific, but we use the "hershey fonts", which defines
- many characters in terms of straight line vectors. Try an archie search
- for hershey.
-
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