John Gardner wrote:
I'm a professional graphic designer with access
to commercial typeface
authoring software. Send me the highest-quality and most comprehensive
scans of a C/A/T-printed document, and I'll get to work.
Are you offering to donate your labor in terms of typeface design, or
will it be a type of deal where the community will need to collectively
pitch in money to cover the cost of you doing it professionally?
In either case, the "C/A/T-printed document" of most value to this
project would be the same one G. Branden Robinson is referring to:
If you don't have my scan of CSTR #54 (1976),
which helpfully dumps all
of the glyphs in the faces used by the Bell Labs CSRC C/A/T-4, let me
know and I'll send it along. I won't vouch for its high quality but it
should be comprehensive with respect to coverage.
The paper in question is Nroff/Troff User's Manual by Joseph F. Ossanna,
dated 1976-10-11, which was indeed also CSTR #54. The document is 33
pages long in its original form, and page 31 out of the 33 is the most
interesting one for the purpose of font recreation: it is the page that
exhibits all 4 fonts of 102 characters each. Here are the few published
scans I am aware of:
1) Page 245 of:
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/att/unix/7th_Edition/UNIX_Programmers_Manual_Seven…
2) Page 235 of:
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/att/unix/7th_Edition/UNIX_Programmers_Manual_Seven…
3) Page 239 of:
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/att/unix/7th_Edition/VA-004A_UNIX_Programmers_Manu…
4) Page 499 of:
https://archive.org/details/uum-supplement-4.2bsd
Question to Branden: the scan you are referring to as "my scan", how
does it compare to the 4 I just linked above? If your scan has better
quality than all 4 versions I linked above, can you please make it
public?
M~