/*********************************************************************** Module: Readme Copyright (C) 1996 Harold Youngren, Mark Drela This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Library General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Report problems to: guppy@maine.com or drela@mit.edu ***********************************************************************/ This directory contains programs and routines for creating, modifying, and using vector fonts. PROGRAM SYMGEN is an interactive program for creating or modifying font description files XXXX.FNT, and is invoked with % make symgen (requires ../libPlt.a) % symgen XXXX The header of symgen.f has a description of the format of a XXXX.FNT file, although this is of no concern to the user. SYMGEN can create an include file XXXX.INC which has the font encoding placed into Fortran DATA statements. XXXX.INC is then compiled with a Versaplot SYMBOL-type routine which is used in applications. Four sample databases, include files, and application routines already exist. The application routines are in ../plt_font.f: CHAR.FNT CHAR.INC SUBR. PLCHAR (Upper,lower case letters, WYSIWYG) SLAN.FNT SLAN.INC SUBR. PLSLAN (Upper,lower case slanted letters) MATH.FNT MATH.INC SUBR. PLMATH (Latex-like Greek symbols, exponents) SYMB.FNT SYMB.INC SUBR. PLSYMB (Versaplot plotting symbols) also available: SUBR. PLNUMB (Whole floating-point numbers) One can generate analogous files and plot routines for any custom font, e.g. USER.FNT USER.INC SUBR. PLUSER PROGRAM TEST plots the complete CHAR, SLAN, MATH, and SYMB fonts, and also plots sample character strings for examination. % make test % test Mark Drela 10 March 96