kicad/tools/newstroke/README.txt

Newstroke Font Readme
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Newstroke is a stroke (plotter) font originally designed for KiCAD.

Project homepage: http://vovanium.ru/sledy/newstroke

Files
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font.lib         - main glyph library in KiCAD library format
symbol.lib       - glyph library for most math, tech and other symbols
CJK_symbol.lib   - CJK symbols
CKJ_wide.lib     - CJK characters, widened by a factor of 1.5
katakana.lib     - Japanese script
hiragana.lib     - Japanese script
half_full.lib    - U+FF00 half- and full-width forms
charlist.txt     - unicode glyph map list
fontconv.awk     - AWK script for 'compiling' project to c-source used by KiCAD
../../common/newstroke_font.cpp
                 - C source with the font, generated by fontconv.awk

Other Files
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font_draft1.lib  - old draft glyph library with the metrics from Hersheys Simplex
font.pro         - KiCAD project

Requirements
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KiCAD (http://kicad.sourceforge.net/) - for glyph editing
AWK - for font generating

Usage
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* Edit glyps with KiCAD 5.1 EESchema library editor.
  See the note below for special handling of CJK_wide.lib
* Add Unicode positions to charlist.
* Generate font using following command line:

awk -f fontconv.awk symbol.lib font.lib CJK_symbol.lib CKJ_wide.lib \
    hiragana.lib katakana.lib half_full.lib charlist.txt \
    >../../common/newstroke_font.cpp

Note
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The CKJ_wide.lib file is not editable using EESchema editor directly.
To edit:
* Unscale the file back to CKJ_lib.lib using unscale.py
* Edit glyphs using KiCAD 5.1 EESchema library editor.
* Rescale the file from CKJ_lib.lib to CKJ_wide.lib using scale.py


Released under CC0 licence.