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			containing artifacts from
			    and references to 
			   everything at SAIL 
	      (Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory)
		       of interest to typographers
		      and other alphabetic artisans

				   ←+→ 

	    an ongoing collaborative effort by the members of
		   Chuck Bigelow's grammatography gang










		   please don't hesitate to contribute

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  VISUAL ARTIFACTS FROM VARIOUS METAFONT PROJECTS

Author			Project
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Pijush K. Ghosh         Novice Calligrapher's Simple Devanagari
New Wave Dave		Interactive front end for Metafont
Carol Twombly/Dan Mills Decomposable alphabets
Carol Twombly/Dan Mills Euler Fraktur upper case outline
John Hobby		New cubic splines
Gu Guoan		Chinese
Randy Strauss
Linda Gass		Courier
Scott Kim		Dingbats
Scott Kim		Euler Fraktur lower case
Tom Hickey		Helvetica
Dikran Karagueuzian	Armenian
Ron Whitney		Computer Modern Cyrillic
Hermann Zapf		AMS Euler
Andy Bechtolshiem	Font for producing printed circuit boards
Bill Nowicki		Computer Modern Roman adapted for SUN display
Greg Nelson		PEN (simple Humanist bookhand)
Lynn Ruggles		PEN with improved letter design and spacing
Bettina Wiskott		OZU (Bauhaus-influenced sans serif)
Rudiger	Pfeiffer-Rupp	Experimental phonetic font, including over 300 characters.




  GENERAL INFORMATION

Author			Project
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Scott Kim		Typographic Computer Programs On SAIL
Scott Kim		Metafont Workbook

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Note: the documentation references given here are not necessarily the only ones
available. In the case that more than one document exists, I have chosen the most
general one, i.e. the one that will lead you to all other documentation.



  TYPE DESIGN

Program	  Documentation		Description
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ddfont	  ddfont.   [3  ,2  ]	Display font sample on screen 
fcopy	  fcopy .   [3  ,2  ]	Print font sample on XGP (R FCOPY;<file>/INFO/SAMPLE)
sampl				Print sample text on XGP in several fonts (for comparison)
tfxgen	  tfx   .fml[up ,doc]	Make .TFX file for existing font
 tfxpr
 tfdrd
tftopl	  tfm   .txt[tex,sys]	Make .TFM file for existing font
 pltotf
edfont	  edfont.tvr[up ,doc]	See or edit characters in existing font
fmunge	  fmunge.ref[up ,doc]	Edit characters using E
fntchr	  fntchr.mai[up ,doc]
 chrfnt
tvfont	  tvfont.bgb[up ,doc]	Make new font by using TV camera
pix	  pix   .   [3  ,2  ]	Make new font by using TV camera
fscale	  fscale.don[up ,doc]	Scale font
combin	  combin.   [3  ,2  ]	Combine characters from two fonts
ufc	  ufc   .reg[up ,doc]	Compile a font
font	  font  .bh [up ,doc]	Poke at all sorts of mystic font file parameters
mf	  mf    .   [3  ,2  ]	Programming language for typeface design
......	  format.doc[xgp,sys]	Describes font file format for XGP
......	  font  .   [3  ,2  ]	Describes all font-related programs on SAIL




  TYPOGRAPHY

Program	  Documentation		Description
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pub	  pub   .tex[s  ,doc]	Document compiler by Larry Tesler
scribe	  scribe.   [3  ,2  ]	Document compiler by Brian Reid




  IMAGING

Device 	  Documentation		Description
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dover	  dover .   [3  ,2  ]	384 dot/inch xerographic printer
xgp  	  xgp   .   [3  ,2  ]	200 dot/inch xerographic printer
canon	  canon .   [3  ,2  ]	240 dot/inch laser printer
alphatype 			5300 dot/inch crt phototypesetter




  OTHER GRAPHIC PROGRAMS

Program	  Documentation		Description
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ms	  ms    .doc[mus,doc]	Musical notation compiler by Leland Smith
geomed	  geomed.   [3  ,2  ]	Interactive geometric editor by Bruce Baumgart