kicad/helpers/tools_to_build_newstroke-font/README.txt

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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
font_draft1.lib - old draft glyph library with the metrics from Hersheys Simplex
font.pro - KiCAD project
charlist.txt - unicode glyph map list
fontconv.awk - AWK script for 'compiling' project to c-source used by KiCAD
newstroke_font.h - generated c header with font
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 EESchema library editor.
* Add Unicode positions to charlist.
* Generate font using following command line:
awk -f fontconv.awk symbol.lib font.lib charlist.txt >newstroke_font.h
Released under CC-BY licence.