hershey-fonts : Hershey vector fonts library, tools, and glyphs

Project home page: http://www.whence.com/hershey-fonts/

• Kamal Mostafa [email protected]
• Dr. A. V. Hershey
• James Hurt

Package components

libhersheyfont and hershey-font apps

Kamal Mostafa's libhersheyfont (a C library for loading .jhf format Hershey font files) along with various utility programs such as hershey-font-gnuplot (a Hershey text front-end for gnuplot).

hershey-fonts-data

The Hershey fonts are a collection of vector fonts developed circa 1967 by Dr. A. V. Hershey. Included are Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Japanese, and various symbol glyph sets encoded as .jhf format Hershey font files. The .jhf font files were converted from Hershey's original NTIS format files by James Hurt (see hershey-fonts.notes). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey_font.

Build and install instructions

cmake .
make
make test
sudo make install     # optional

The HERSHEY_FONTS_DIR environment variable

By default, libhersheyfont finds .jhf font files installed into the system directory /usr/share/hershey-fonts/ or /usr/local/share/hershey-fonts/ depending on the build configuration.

To use libhersheyfont apps without installing, set the HERSHEY_FONTS_DIR environment variable, e.g.:

export HERSHEY_FONTS_DIR=$PWD/hershey-fonts
tools/hershey-font-check futural
tools/hershey-font-gnuplot . . .

License

The libhersheyfont library and apps are Copyright © 2013 Kamal Mostafa [email protected], licensed GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html. The Hershey font glyph data is covered by a permissive use and redistribution license. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.