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From: gal2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Jacob Galley)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: The Economist
Date: 12 Apr 92 23:02:32 GMT
Reply-To: gal2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <1992Apr6.183351.22768@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> bjag@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bharathi Jagadeesh) writes:

>In article <1992Apr05.182614.103828@link-1.ts.bcc.ac.uk> ucgadkw@ucl.ac.uk (Dominik Wujastyk) writes:

>>>As I hope you know, in recent years the newsmagazine "The Economist" has
>>>changed over to a new font for at least the body-text of the magazine. I
>>>do not know the name of this font or who they commissioned to create it,
>>>but I would like to purchase it in Type 1 TrueType for the Macintosh. I
>>>have repeatedly been struck by how beautiful a font it is. Does anyone
>>>have any information that might help
>>>me find this font?
>
>The type is called "Eco-type" and in an article the Economist stated that
>they would market it after keeping it exclusive for a while. If anyone
>finds out when and where it'll be available, I'd appreciate hearing about
>it, too. 

I was also struck by this font. I thought I was on the right track when
I noticed that the italics looked like some nonslanted form of Zapf
Chancery. Hmm.

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From: huntley@garbo.cs.indiana.edu (Haydn Huntley)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Can anyone help me find a TeX font for the IBM PC character set?
Date: 11 Apr 92 16:06:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Apr11.110619.6314
Distribution: usa
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington


I'm using TeX to write documentation for a PC program, which uses the
IBM extended ASCII character set to draw boxes and stuff on the
screen, and I'd like to be able to include diagrams showing how the
screen looks.

I'm using TeX and I have a friend who understands how to use MetaFont,
if that helps any.

Thanks in Advance!

--Haydn

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From: lawsonj@cs.man.ac.uk (Julian Lawson)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Beo-fonts and good books on type design
Date: 8 Apr 92 11:11:47 GMT
Reply-To: lawsonj@cs.man.ac.uk (Julian Lawson)
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester

Two questions:

Firstly, I remember seeing an article in (I think) MacPublishing several years
ago about some company who'd developed some fonts which used random number 
generation to modify the font so it looked slightly different each time you
output a character. I think they were called "Beo-Fonts". Did they ever catch on?
It seems like a good idea, especially for script fonts etc. to get a good
"handwritten" look. The disadvantage is, of course, unless you know the random
number seed, you won't be able to get exactly the same output twice if you
particularly like one instance of the output

Secondly, does anyone know any good books about the art of type design?
I believe Gill wrote one... did any of the typography "oldies" like Garamond
write any books?

Thanks,
Julian
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From: dododge@wam.umd.edu (David O. Dodge)
Subject: looking for some fonts
Keywords: ghostscript, postscript, tex, bdf
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 04:50:44 GMT

I am working on a project involving generating presentation-quality
output on our color printers at work. The picture files are in
PostScript (from an in-house drawing package) but the printers do
not support PostScript output. I was able to put together a Ghostscript
driver for the printer, so at least the problem of getting the output has
been solved.

The problem is the fonts.

I need extremely high quality fonts for Ghostscript that approximate the
normal PostScript Courier, Times-Roman, and Helvetica as closely as
possible. I've been playing with the TeX fonts (generating huge fonts,
converting to BDF, then converting to GSF), and although these generate
beautiful output they aren't perfect. I need the output to come as close
as possible to what you would get by sending the same picture file to a
PostScript laser printer.

The catch is that whatever fonts I use, I need to be able to distribute
them freely. This printing system is part of a larger package that will be
widely distributed (non commercially), and I don't want to have to worry
about where the fonts end up. A site licence is not good enough -- I need
something as distributable as the fonts that come with Ghostscript or X11.

As to how high of quality I'm looking for -- I'm currently using 108
point TeX fonts at 300dpi as the starting bitmaps for gsf conversion.
I'd prefer something even cleaner (vector-based gsf fonts would be best).

Any ideas?

                                       -Dave Dodge/dododge@wam.umd.edu
From: bkph@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Can anyone help me find a TeX font for the IBM PC character set?
Date: 11 Apr 92 22:08:38 GMT
Distribution: usa
In-reply-to: huntley@garbo.cs.indiana.edu's message of 11 Apr 92 16:06:10 GMT


In article <1992Apr11.110619.6314@news.cs.indiana.edu> huntley@garbo.cs.indiana.edu (Haydn Huntley) writes:

   I'm using TeX to write documentation for a PC program, which uses the
   IBM extended ASCII character set to draw boxes and stuff on the
   screen, and I'd like to be able to include diagrams showing how the
   screen looks.

   I'm using TeX and I have a friend who understands how to use MetaFont,
   if that helps any.

This probably ought to be in FAQ, given the frequency this question is asked.
There are several fonts that contain the full IBM OEM character set.
The one that works best is IBMExtended from Impramatur Systems in Cambridge
Mass.  You can also try and use Adobe's LetterGothic and PrestigeElite,
but you need to figure out how to reencode them and avoid using all accented
characters. 

To use the fonts in TeX you just need to make up some TFM files from the
AFM files that come with the fonts, and use a driver that understands 
Type 1 fonts.

Or, if you prefer, you can treat these as inserted figures and make up EPS
files that have some IBM OEM font in it plus the `text'.

Berthold K.P. Horn
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Tuesday, 7 Apr 1992 15:31:28 CDT
From: Jai K. Singh <U11960@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Dravidian fonts needed..........

I would like to get any information on Dravidian fonts.   Where can I get
them?  How to use them?  etc....
I would prefer if you can give me e-mail address where I can download
them using ftp if possible.
I really appreciate anybody's help on this matter.
   Thank You!!!!!
---Jai Singh
u11960@uicmv.uic.edu
singh@earth.eecs.uic.edu
singh1@earth.eecs.uic.edu
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
From: george@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (George Nassas)
Subject: REQUEST: font with long "s"
Keywords: fonts,special characters
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 02:52:27 GMT

Hello, I'm posting this for a friend who works with texts from previous
centuries.  He's asked me to see if I can find a font somewhere that
has a "long `S'" character.  It looks something like a slanted
integral sign with a notch halfway through it.  Some people mistake it
for an italic "f".  I understand that this character was in use until
the late 1800s.

The environment is PC WordPerfect 5.1 and the printer is an HP
LaserJet III although PostScript may be an option.  If anyone has
pointers to a font that is a collection of oddball old characters like
this I'd be pleased to hear about that as well.

Sorry if I'm asking something obvious, I'm new to this group and don't
yet know where all the good archives are.  Thanks in advance.

- George Nassas                          george@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca
From: bkph@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Who sells LucidaBrightMath
Date: 7 Apr 92 11:33:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: life.23184
In-reply-to: jiro@shaman.com's message of 6 Apr 92 06:17:49 GMT


In article <1992Apr6.061749.3071@shaman.com> jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura) writes:

   Adobe sells Lucida Math (package 154) but no Lucida Bright Math. You might  
   want to see if the two are distinct (I don't know...).

	   - Jiro

Yes, they are distinct. LucidaBright is lighter and has a brand new set of
math fonts to go with it.  The new fonts were apparently created partly in
response to a feeling that the Lucida fonts were a bit heavy, particularly
the bold text font.  A font set containing 16 LucidaBright + LucidaNewMath
fonts (over 3000 distinct characters) is available from Y&Y.

These are fully hinted Adobe Type 1 fonts and cover all of the math
characters in the Computer Modern fonts plus those in the American
Mathematical Society (AMS) math fonts.  In addition, they are set up so you
can easily replace Computer Modern with LucidaBright in TeX simply by
\input-ting one macro file.  In fact they are the only complete replacement
for Computer Modern in mathematical typesetting available in Adobe Type 1
form. They come with Adobe Font Metric (AFM), Windows Font Metric (PFM) and
TeX font metric (TFM) files.

LucidaBright fonts are not tied to use with TeX, however, since they are in
Adobe Type 1 form (ATM compatible). Many applications can use Type 1 fonts,
including most MS Windows applications.

If you want to see what the text fonts are like, look in Scientific American.
Unfortunately Sci Amer editorial policy is to not allow any equations in
articles, so you won't see any math there.

(*) Lucida is a registered trademark of Bigelow & Holmes Inc.

Berthold K.P. Horn
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
From: ucgadkw@ucl.ac.uk (Dominik Wujastyk)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: The Economist
Date: 5 Apr 92 18:26:14 GMT
Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium

bg1g+@andrew.cmu.edu (Benjamin E Griffin) writes:

>As I hope you know, in recent years the newsmagazine "The Economist" has
>changed over to a new font for at least the body-text of the magazine. I
>do not know the name of this font or who they commissioned to create it,
>but I would like to purchase it in Type 1 TrueType for the Macintosh. I
>have repeatedly been struck by how beautiful a font it is. Does anyone
>have any information that might help
>me find this font?

The Economist font was created by Aravind Patel.  If you write to him
c/o the Economist, he might be able to advise you.  He is *very*
busy, however, and can be hard to contact.

Best wishes,

Dominik Wujastyk
From: michaela@tau-ceti.isc-br.com (Michael Albo)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Line Drawing Font
Keywords: MAC,PC,Line drawing font.
Date: 13 Apr 92 15:21:09 GMT
Organization: ISC - Bunker Ramo, Spokane, WA

Does anyone know of a Type 1 font(for the MAC) that emulates the extended 
character line drawing set for the PC. I have a number of ASCII files that
I would like to convert for use with the MAC.

Thanks in advance for any help

Michael Albo

michaela@isc-br.isc.com

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From: jdr8@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Jay D Rosenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives,comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Hebrew fonts wanted
Date: 6 Apr 92 23:23:26 GMT
Reply-To: jdr8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Jay D Rosenbaum)
Organization: Columbia University

In article <6APR199209453541@vms.huji.ac.il> laurie@vms.huji.ac.il (LAURIE MARR) writes:
>In article <2281@isgtec.isgtec.com>, zale@isgtec.UUCP (Zale Tabakman) writes...
>>
>>Hi!
>>
>>I just got the ATM package and I am looking for some hebrew fonts.
>>
>>Does anybody know where some are available? I would like sharewhare ones, but
>>I do NOT want ones which are illegal copies.
>>
>>Thanx for the help in advance!
>>
>>Zale
>Hi Zale
>as I haven't seen any sharewhare hebrew fonts.  around I know thare are
>some for sale as part of hebrew suppout for Exel.  I was told by the reps
>for Microsoft in Israel that win 3.1 will have hebrew support and am waiting
>for that my self.  if you do here of any please let me know.

I don't know of anything available in the realm of Shareware, but I got some very nice stuff (fonts that include nikud, right-to-left macros, etc.) from Kabbalah Software.

They can be reached at:
	8 Price Drive
	Edison, NJ 08817
	908-572-0891
or email:  72657.366@compuserve.com

I don't work for them or have anything to do with them, but I've been VERY happy with their stuff.

Good luck...

-Jay
From: tischer@tischer.Gwinnett.COM (Steve Tischer)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: REQUEST: font with long "s"
Keywords: fonts,special characters
Date: 11 Apr 92 09:23:12 GMT

george@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (George Nassas) writes:

> Hello, I'm posting this for a friend who works with texts from previous
> centuries.  He's asked me to see if I can find a font somewhere that
> has a "long `S'" character.  It looks something like a slanted
> integral sign with a notch halfway through it.  Some people mistake it
> for an italic "f".  I understand that this character was in use until
> the late 1800s.
> 
> The environment is PC WordPerfect 5.1 and the printer is an HP
> LaserJet III although PostScript may be an option.  If anyone has
> pointers to a font that is a collection of oddball old characters like
> this I'd be pleased to hear about that as well.
> 
> Sorry if I'm asking something obvious, I'm new to this group and don't
> yet know where all the good archives are.  Thanks in advance.
> 
> - George Nassas                          george@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca

I have a product called Fraktur Modern Software which is based on a German
fraktur face of the last century.  In the product there are two s symbols,
a medial s, which is much like an f, and then there is the curly s which 
is used as the final s.

Doesn't look like you are looking for a fraktur though.  This product does 
work with WordPerfect 5.1 but mainly with Epson LQ 24 pin printers.  The
product is used in universities and by some religious groups in the US 
who still teach German using it.  

I have plans for a type 1 PostScript version later this year, as well as
some other 'traditional' german faces.

Steve Tischer

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From: laurie@vms.huji.ac.il (LAURIE MARR)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives,comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Hebrew fonts wanted
Date: 6 Apr 92 12:31:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: vms.6APR199209453541
Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    Lines: 20

In article <2281@isgtec.isgtec.com>, zale@isgtec.UUCP (Zale Tabakman) writes...
>
>Hi!
>
>I just got the ATM package and I am looking for some hebrew fonts.
>
>Does anybody know where some are available? I would like sharewhare ones, but
>I do NOT want ones which are illegal copies.
>
>Thanx for the help in advance!
>
>Zale
Hi Zale
as I haven't seen any sharewhare hebrew fonts.  around I know thare are
some for sale as part of hebrew suppout for Exel.  I was told by the reps
for Microsoft in Israel that win 3.1 will have hebrew support and am waiting
for that my self.  if you do here of any please let me know.
Joey
heberw U Jerusalem Israel
laurie@hujivms.ac.il
From: rlwinter@taco.ucdavis.edu (Richard Lee Winterstein)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: REQUEST: Greek alphabet font
Date: 16 Apr 92 19:18:27 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering - University of California - Davis

As some may recall, I posted a request for information on Greek fonts available
for the Macintosh.  I have received a number of (e-mail) responses from others
similarly interested so I will now present a summary of what I have learned.

There do not appear to be any shareware Greek fonts at this time, at least
none which are enjoying a healthy circulation.  Purchasing a commercial
package appears to be the way to go, unless someone is willing to convert
a bit-map font (there are some in the archives, sorry I don't remember where).

The commercial options I have learned about are:

1)  Purchase an electronic Greek Bible.  Zondervan Electronic Publishing 
offers one (macBible, Greek version, see p.87 of recent MacWherehouse catalog)
and according to one person who responded to me, their font, Alexandria, is
very nice.  However, as he noted, whether or not one can actually use one of
these fonts depends upon whether the font itself is in the public domain.
Note that the "Alexandria" available in some archives is NOT the same thing,
it looks like a PS conversion of the old Athens bit-map font.

2) Linguists Software produces two appropriate products:

  MacGreek (for ImageWriter) $79.95 *
  LaserGreek (Type 1 & 3)    $99.95

You can contact them at:

  Linguist's Software
  P.O. Box 580
  Edmonds, WA  98020-0580

  Phone: (206) 775-1130
    FAX: (206) 771-5911

3) Scholar's Press Software offers something called Greek Keys.  I spoke
with them over the phone and a representative said that the package includes
both TT and PS formats.  She also claimed the package includes a program which
redefines the keyboard into something more "natural" for typing ancient Greek.
She will be sending me some literature on the product which I will summarize
to the net when I receive it.  She quoted the price as $50.00

To contact them:

  Scholar's Press Software
  P.O. Box 15399
  Atlanta, GA  30333-0399

  Phone: (404) 636-4757

 
Thanks to all who responded.  What I have posted is everything I now know, so
if you have any more questions, please contact the manufacturers, not me.  

Rick

* (yes, these are all U.S. prices)
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From: pi@sharon.isi.edu (Jen-I Pi)
Newsgroups: comp.lsi,comp.lsi.cad
Subject: Re: GaAs spice models needed
Date: 7 Apr 92 09:48:48 GMT
Distribution: world

In article <1992Apr1.195003.25756@coe.montana.edu>, ieeg0010@cs.montana.edu (Grant P. Beagles) writes:
|> 
|> I am currently involved in a project which requires device level modeling
|> of gallium-arsenide circuits.  I have at my disposal three spice packages,
|> neither of which has GaAs models.  I need models for one of the following;
|> 
|> 	T_SPICE (Tektronix Spice)
|> 	Berkeley Spice
|> 	X-TSPICE (Rockwell)
|> 
|> If anyone has models which I can get my hands on I would greatly appreciate
|> it.

I am no expert on GaAs device modeling, but have some pointers to
offer...

First of all, Berkeley's SPICE 3 should have Statz's model [1] implemented,
unless you are still with SPICE2G6.

In [2] and [3], a particular 1-um technology from Imperial Colledge, London,
England is given by the use of traditional JFET model in SPICE. You need
both of them to get a complete list of parameters (and their typical values).
Also notice the interchnage of values in [2] for parameters GAP1 and GAP2...

Just recently in [4], GaAs device models are implemented in SPICE2G6 with
nonlinear voltage/current controlled voltage/current sources.

Finally, if you are seriesly thinking design GaAs chips. Send the following
e-mail to mosis@mosis.edu

REQUEST: INFORMATION
TOPIC: VITESSE_HGAAS2.INF, VITESSE_HGAAS2_HSPICE.INF
REQUEST: END

These are HSPICE models for Vitesse's HGaAsII process [1.2um drawn, 0.8um
effective]. I believe that we also have HGaAsIII parameters somewhere :-)

Refs:
[1]
@article{Statz87,
  author="H. Statz and P. Newman and I. W. Smith and R. A. Pucel and H. A.\
    Haus",
  title="{GaAs FET} Device and Circuit Simulation in {SPICE}",
  journal=ieeeted,		% IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices
  year=1987,  volume="ED-34",  number=2,  pages={160--169}
}
[2]
@article{Toumazou90a,
  author="David G. Haigh and Chris Toumazou",
  title="High frequency Gallium Arsenide Linearised Transconductor\
    for Communications"
  journal="Electronic Letters",  year=1990,  volume=26,  number=8,
  pages={497--498}
}
[3]
@article{Toumazou90b,
  author="Chris Toumazou and David G. Haigh",
  title="Design of {GaAs} Operational Amplifiers for Analog Sampled\
    Data Application"
  journal=ieeetcas,		% IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems
  year=1990,  volume=37,  number=7,  pages={922--935},  month="July"
}
[4]
@article{Goyal92,
  author="R. Goyal",
  title="Implementing {GaAs} Device Models with {SPICE}",
  journal=ieeecd,		& IEEE Circuit & Devices
  year=1992,  volume=8,  number=2,  pages={9-13}
}

Hope this helps,

Best Regards,

Jen-I pi@lepton.isi.edu :-)
MOSIS Project, USC/ISI
(310)8221510-1212-640
Newsgroups: comp.lsi.cad
From: mgrjhb@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Jon H. Bohlke)
Subject: OCTTOOLS 5.1, how do I get it?
Reply-To: mgrjhb@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Jon H. Bohlke)
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 04:00:59 GMT

Hey,
   How do I go about getting the OCTTOOLS 5.1 distribution via ftp?  I  
recently did this (about 5 months ago) for the 5.0 distribution, but the  
account I used has a new password (and I don't know it).  Help!!


Jon
Newsgroups: comp.lsi.cad
From: yarri@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu (Douglas Yarrington)
Subject: Re: Encapsulated postscript for magic/cif plots ?
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Electrical Engineering
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 20:07:20 GMT

In article <1768@fnnews.fnal.gov> hoff@fasic5.fnal.gov (James R. Hoff) writes:

   |> >BTW: There is a utility called ps2epsf that I tracked down using
   |> >archie. This might be what we're looking for, but I haven't had the
   |> >time to compile it yet. It uses ghostscript and pbmplus to generate
   |> >the correct bounding box on the ps file.

   We use pplot followed by ps2epsi (aka ps2epsf) at Fermi, and, by
   and large, it works well.  We are able to encorporate designs into
   FrameMaker.  However, ps2epsi hangs if the design is large (around
   2000 transistors is the limit). So we aren't completely satisfied
   either.  After struggling with this problem for nearly a year, I'm
   ready to toss the whole problem and draw the documents with Crayons.

I've been struggling with this problem for about a while too. I've
been pleasantly surprised with pplot, it generates nice output; well,
sort of...

I've had to recode some of pplot. I couldn't change the font size and
there's a box drawn around the border that doesn't look good inside a
latex doc so I rewrote pplot to change this.

But the real problem is that the bounding box of the output ps file
isn't correct; at least as far as latex (dvips) is concerned it's not.

My solution to the problem is to do some editing of the ps file, and
rewrite latex macros just for layout ps files.

It still would be nice to have direct support for eps format, though.

--douglas
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