> Good point.  I'll get some together tonight.

Great!

> (Re: license) Open one up in a text editor and have a look!

The license looks just fine, BSD-like in nature.  The only limitation is carrying forward the copyright notices, which is a fair exchange.  Do be sure to put the Copyright Notices somewhere approriate in the change-file or font-files (if you build and distribute as a Font-Set, the comment arena is a good place for that).

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COMMENT  association with the images described in this file.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: MIME :nop at nop.com > Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 10:45 AM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Cc: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: Computer Modern Fonts/Mach 2
> > > "Andrew C. Greenberg" <werdna at gate.net> wrote at Monday, > January 31, 2000
> 9:29 AM:
> > > > At 8:48 AM -0500 1/31/2000, Jay Carlson wrote:
> > > >What's the conversion path for these---how did they get > from Metafont
> source
> > >files to StrikeFont bitmaps?  I've done some Metafont > hacking (a zillion
> > >years ago), and I'd like to try doing some fixups at the > source level.
> For
> > >instance, there are left-arrow and up-arrow glyphs in the > symbol sets,
> and
> > >the prime glyph might be ok as a single quote.
> >
> > I tried to do this direct from Metafont, but while Metafont makes
> > very decent printer fonts, it generates seriously groty 72 dpi fonts
> > that unsuitable for serious use, and too weak for a pixel-by-pixel
> > fixup.
> > Yeah, that's been my experience too.  :-/
> > > Then, I used bitEdit to make glyphs for programming (<, >, > leftarrow,
> > |, curly braces) or corresponding size, and wrote some scripts to
> > install them into the fonts in TextConstants.  I then wrote another
> > script to adjust the FontSets, and here we are.
> > I suppose that could be automated by stealing characters from > the symbol
> fonts, but that may be a lot of work to get right, visually.
> > > >Would anyone like the fonts from X11 as FontSets?  I > figured it'd be
> better
> > >to publish the tools I used for conversion rather than > pure bitmaps, but
> > >even as three doIts in a class comment it's less convenient than a
> unified
> > >changeset.
> >
> > Why choose?  Do it both ways.
> > Good point.  I'll get some together tonight.
> > > One thing though: are the X11 fonts subject to GPL (which,
> > regrettably is incompatible with Squeak)?  My primary motivation for
> > converting these fonts was to make it possible to remove the font
> > limitations from the Squeak license of the general > distribution.  I'd
> > hate to see us move from one license problem directly to another.
> > X11 is not covered by the GPL; it's covered by the MIT/DEC > X11 license.  The
> BDF sources are text files with comments in them giving > license information
> as well; the licenses are not word-for-word identical but are > very similar.
> Open one up in a text editor and have a look!
> http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/packages/X11R6.3/xc/fonts/bdf/75dpi
/helvR12.bdf

Jay