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From: "Benjamin Huntsman" <BHuntsman@mail2.cu-portland.edu>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Visual font viewer
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:02:41 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <621112A569DAE948AD25CCDCF1C075331AB463@dolly.ntdom.cupdx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <60a89833a15dd9c8269e72841b9a8cd4@quanstro.net>

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You know, this brings up a good question, which I've been pondering for some time but never asked...

Does anyone remember how the Plan 9 font files came to be?  I'm going to go out on a limb here and bet that some poor soul didn't enter them by hand...
I'd also wager that they weren't created on Plan 9 directly...

So, was(were) some tool(s) used, especially in the conversion from a "more standard" format like PS to the Plan 9 format?  And if so, does(do) said tool(s) still exist?  

Thanks!!

-Ben

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-28  3:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-28  2:06 John Barham
2009-02-28  2:08 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-28  2:10 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-02-28  2:13   ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-02-28  2:20     ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-28  3:02       ` Benjamin Huntsman [this message]
2009-02-28  3:13         ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-03-30  9:05       ` frederic.bonfanti
2009-03-30  9:05       ` Frederic Bonfanti
2009-03-30 13:14         ` Joel C. Salomon
2009-03-30 14:05           ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-01 13:53 ` Steve Simon
2009-03-02 10:22   ` roger peppe
2009-02-28  2:14 Akshat Kumar

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