Hershey Vector Font Samples

IDL Reference Guide: Fonts

Hershey Vector Font Samples

The following figures show samples of various Hershey vector-drawn fonts. The SHOWFONT command was used to create these figures. For example, to display the following figure on the screen, you would the command:

SHOWFONT, 3, 'Simplex Roman'

To output this figure to a postscript file, you would use the following commands:

SET_PLOT, 'PS'  
SHOWFONT, 3, 'Simplex Roman'  
DEVICE, /CLOSE

For more information, see SHOWFONT.

Note
The following font charts are numbered in octal notation. To read the octal number of a character, add the column index (along the top) to ten times the row index. For example, the capital letter "A" is octal 101, and the "$" symbol is octal 44.

See the following:


Font 3, Simplex Roman		Font12, Simplex Script
Font 4, Simplex Greek		Font 13, Complex Script
Font 5, Duplex Roman		Font 14, Gothic Italian
Font 6, Complex Roman		Font 15, Gothic German
Font 7, Complex Greek		Font 16, B Cyrilic
Font 8, Complex Italic		Font 17, Triplex Roman
Font 9, Math and Special		Font 18, Triplex Italic
Font 11, Gothic English		Font 20, Miscellaneous

Figure H-21: Font 3, Simplex Roman

Figure H-21: Font 3, Simplex Roman

Figure H-22: Font 4, Simplex Greek

Figure H-22: Font 4, Simplex Greek

Warning
Different character sets map greek characters to keyboard keys differently. The Microsoft Windows Symbol font, for example, maps the capital letter Chi (C) to the latin capital C, whereas the Hershey Greek fonts map the capital Gamma (G) to the latin capital C.

Figure H-23: Font 5, Duplex Roman

Figure H-23: Font 5, Duplex Roman

Figure H-24: Font 6, Complex Roman

Figure H-24: Font 6, Complex Roman

Figure H-25: Font 7, Complex Greek

Figure H-25: Font 7, Complex Greek

Figure H-26: Font 8, Complex Italic

Figure H-26: Font 8, Complex Italic

Figure H-27: Font 9, Math and Special

Figure H-27: Font 9, Math and Special

Figure H-28: Font 11, Gothic English

Figure H-28: Font 11, Gothic English

Figure H-29: Font12, Simplex Script

Figure H-29: Font12, Simplex Script

Figure H-30: Font 13, Complex Script

Figure H-30: Font 13, Complex Script

Figure H-31: Font 14, Gothic Italian

Figure H-31: Font 14, Gothic Italian

Figure H-32: Font 15, Gothic German

Figure H-32: Font 15, Gothic German

Figure H-33: Font 16, B Cyrilic

Figure H-33: Font 16, B Cyrilic

Figure H-34: Font 17, Triplex Roman

Figure H-34: Font 17, Triplex Roman

Figure H-35: Font 18, Triplex Italic

Figure H-35: Font 18, Triplex Italic

Figure H-36: Font 20, Miscellaneous

Figure H-36: Font 20, Miscellaneous

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