> On Apr 28, 2016, at 8:19 AM, Rod Smallwood <rodsmallwoo...@btinternet.com>
> wrote:
>
> ...
> I'd like to recover the DEC fonts and have looked at several font
> creator/editors.
>
> Frankly they are dung. Every fancy curve there is but not a straight forward
> line and circle method of creating lower case characters
> as DEC did it. I do need the ability to enter (or import) the lower case
> characters using just circles and lines.
I just found FontForge, which is open source. A few minutes experimentation
shows that it is quite happy to draw straight lines, including doing obvious
stuff like line segments forced to be horizontal or vertical, or circles or
ellipses. Bezier curves too, of course.
paul
