Class: HersheyFont

• Inheritance
• Description
• Related information
• Examples

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--FontDescription
      |
      +--Font
         |
         +--HersheyFont

Package:

stx:libview2

Category:

Graphics-Support

Version:

rev: ? date: ? ?

user: ?

file: ? directory: libview2

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libview2

Description:

HersheyFont provides (limited) support to draw characters
from the hershey font data file 'hersh.oc'
(which is available via ftp and must be aquired from elsewhere).
    
This is a demo class - not maintained or meant for productive use.
Notice: this is a very old demo - it should be rewritten to honor
the FontDescription protocol (see BitmapFont as a better example).



Support for hershey fonts is based on a freeware cd-rom distribution 
by DEC. This disk contains the hershey outlines and glyph maps of
the following fonts:

Fonts:
    Roman:  Plain, Simplex, Duplex, Complex Small, Complex, Triplex
   Italic:  Complex Small, Complex, Triplex
   Script:  Simplex, Complex
   Gothic:  German, English, Italian
    Greek:  Plain, Simplex, Complex Small, Complex
 Cyrillic:  Complex

Symbols:
    Mathematical 
    Daggers 
    Astronomical 
    Astrological 
    Musical 
    Typesetting (ffl,fl,fi sorts of things) 
    Miscellaneous:
            - Playing card suits
            - Meteorology
            - Graphics (lines, curves)
            - Electrical
            - Geometric (shapes)
            - Cartographic
            - Naval
            - Agricultural
            - Highways
            - Etc...

Legal notice:
    This distribution of the Hershey Fonts may be used by anyone for
    any purpose, commercial or otherwise, providing that:

    1. The following acknowledgements must be distributed with
    the font data:
        - The Hershey Fonts were originally created by Dr.
                A. V. Hershey while working at the U. S.
                National Bureau of Standards.
        - The format of the Font data in this distribution
                was originally created by
                        James Hurt
                        Cognition, Inc.
                        900 Technology Park Drive
                        Billerica, MA 01821
                        (mit-eddie!ci-dandelion!hurt)

    2. The font data in this distribution may be converted into
    any other format *EXCEPT* the format distributed by
    the U.S. NTIS (which organization holds the rights
    to the distribution and use of the font data in that
    particular format). Not that anybody would really
    *want* to use their format... each point is described
    in eight bytes as 'xxx yyy:', where xxx and yyy are
    the coordinate values as ASCII numbers.

Related information:

    BitmapFont
    FontDescription
    Font

Examples: