4.0201 Hershey Script; System; Interactive Fiction; Imago (4/68)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 19 Jun 90 15:45:59 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0201. Tuesday, 19 Jun 1990.
(1) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 90 12:16 EST (33 lines)
From: Tom Crone <CRONE@CUA>
Subject: Re: Hershey Script
(2) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 90 16:08:19 BST (7 lines)
From: J J Higgins <Higgins@np1a.bristol.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: System
(3) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 90 13:09:13 -0400 (14 lines)
From: gxs11@po.CWRU.Edu (Gary Stonum)
Subject: Re: interactive fiction
(4) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 1990 15:22 IST (14 lines)
From: Marc Bregman <HPUBM@HUJIVM1>
Subject: American Imago
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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 90 12:16 EST
From: Tom Crone <CRONE@CUA>
Subject: Re: Hershey Script
John Burt (BURT@BRANDEIS) asks:
>Does anybody know what Hershey Script Fonts are?
Dr A V Hershey[1] digitized (designed?) a set of a couple thousand
characters for use on pen plotters. These included everything from
simple, uppercase only block characters to script, old English, German,
Greek, and Cyrillic fonts and musical, mathematical and map symbols and
even astrological signs. These were put into the public domain, and are
used in SPSSGraphics, SASGraph, VAX GKS, and many (most?) other graphics
packages.
There were at least 2 script fonts, one single stroke and one double
stroke, to simulate the effect of a pen with a point that is not round.
Some of this information was taken from a 1978 National Bureau of
Standards publication, 'Computer Science and Technology: FORTRAN IV
Enhanced Character Graphics', that included 15 pages of DATA statements
to define the characters!
If anyone wants a copy of the Hershey fonts, I still have (I think) a set
that were optimized somewhat for pen movement.
Tom Crone CRONE@CUA or CRONE%CUAVAX.DNET@NETCON.CUA.EDU
Sr User Consultant/Programmer
The Catholic University of America
Washington DC
[1] 'A Computer System for Scientific Typography' Computer Graphics and
Image Processing, Vol 1 pp 373-385, (1972)
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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 90 16:08:19 BST
From: J J Higgins <Higgins@np1a.bristol.ac.uk>
Subject: System [eds]
System is published by Pergamon Press, Oxford, three issues per year.
ISSN 0346-251X. The review of concordancers is by John Higgins and
will probably be in Vol 19, No 1, March 1991.
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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 90 13:09:13 -0400
From: gxs11@po.CWRU.Edu (Gary Stonum)
Subject: Re: interactive fiction
The Winter 1989 issue of _New Literary History_ has an article on
interactive fiction by Richard Ziegfield, which attempts a comprehensive
look at the possibilities and includes a good listing of examples up
through about 1987 or so.
Gary Lee Stonum
Society for Critical Exchange
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH 44106
Internet: gxs11@po.cwru.edu
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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 1990 15:22 IST
From: Marc Bregman <HPUBM@HUJIVM1>
Subject: American Imago
A little help for a Humanist here in Israel where current US periodicals
arrive only many months after their publication. A "very close friend",
Etti Golomb-Bregman, would like to know if her article "No Rose without
Thorns -- Ambivalence in Kafka's 'A Country Doctor'" has appeared in
the most recent issue of American Imago (that was supposed to be out
in March, 1990), published by Wayne State University Press (I believe).
Many thanks to anyone who happens to be close to the Current Periodicals
section of a library.
Marc Bregman, Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem (HPUBM@HUJVM1)