On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 6:53 AM, Shoppa, Tim via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > I grew up with X-Y scope displays, their associated electrostatic printers, > and Calcomp pen plotters. To draw letters and symbols on these, we used > Fortran libraries driven by data tables to make "Hershey Characters".
I came along later and started with rasterized character displays (40x25) before I got my hands on rasterized graphic displays (up to 320x200 in the early days), but I did occasionally get some time on a PDP-8 with a Tektronix 4010 terminal, and always did like the look of vectorized text. > This year, the Hershey Font system and libraries turn 50 years old: > https://books.google.com/books/about/Calligraphy_for_computers.html?id=qFFCAAAAIAAJ Cool. > A little more context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey_fonts > > Google Books > https://books.google.com/books/about/Calligraphy_for_computers.html?id=qFFCAAAAIAAJ Not remembering these by name, I went digging and found the original 1967 paper... https://archive.org/details/hershey-calligraphy_for_computers I'm astounded at how much effort went into rendering Japanese. -ethan
