My, these are beautiful! I didn't know the Gothic and Japanese and other 
elaborately rendered sets existed, thanks for posting. That's perfect  to try 
on my recently acquired HP 1345 vector screen or on my plotters! You learn 
something everyday on this list.
Marc 

On 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".


This year, the Hershey Font system and libraries turn 50 years old: 
https://books.google.com/books/about/Calligraphy_for_computers.html?id=qFFCAAAAIAAJ


A little more context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey_fonts


Happy Anniversary, Hershey!


The PLOT-10 Fortran vector graphics library was published in 1971 and will have 
its 50th anniversary in 2021: 
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102646117

102646117 - Computer History 
Museum<http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102646117>
www.computerhistory.org
Three color brochure of the Plot-10 software. The cover includes a date stamp 
and an image of two men using a terminal that displays the graphing system. The 
brochure ...




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Calligraphy for computers - Google 
Books<https://books.google.com/books/about/Calligraphy_for_computers.html?id=qFFCAAAAIAAJ>
books.google.com
Consideration is given to the possibility of providing a computer and a cathode 
ray printer with an unlimited repertory of characters. Digitalizations are 
presented ...



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