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The document discusses the development of True-Type Fonts (TTF) specifically designed for HP calculators, detailing limitations encountered during their creation using CorelDRAW and MSWindows. It outlines the character sets for various TTF files, including the HP82143 and HP82240B, and notes that some characters cannot be defined due to software restrictions. The author invites feedback on the fonts and plans to make them available for download.

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Some new TTF files

Araguari, April 28th, 2004

Hi, all;

as many of you know, I wrote (draw) some specially developed True-Type Fonts® that
allow documents related to HP calculators (in most cases, calculators in general) be
added characters that look close to their original "view" when showing display contents
and printouts. I also developed a TTF that shows "keyfaces", but this was announced
earlier (a few weeks ago). The 82143A TTF shown here is a re-draw of an existing version
available to download at the MoHPC site.

Some limitations
I'm using CorelDRAW!® to create the TTF files, but because of some internal limitations,
MSWindows® does no allow some characters to be added in some particular positions.
The following tables show the complete set of available characters for each font, and the
characters with dark shadow are the ones that cannot be re-defined by using
CorelDRAW!® 6.0 in an MSWindows® 95 Release 2 environment. I'm not sure about the
actual "source" of these limitations, because I saw some TTF with specific characters
defined in these positions and I don't know which software and under which environment
they were created. I'd appreciate any additional information about this. Also, the TTF files
define their character set after character code 32d (20h), so all characters with related
codes below 32d were "shifted" to upper positions.

Because of the very reasons mentioned in previous paragraph, all TTF's shown here have
some "gaps" and different character codes when compared to their original fonts
(calculator LCD, printers, etc.).

So far, the double-wide characters (printed when flag 12 is set in the HP41 and HP42, or
when escape sequence 27d 253d is added as part of a string in an HP28/48/49) are not
available because they require an extra and complete set of drawn symbols. Building TTF
files with "regular" characters (monospaced, with common pattern) is not so "time
consuming" as it is generating each character as a different draw, but it tires up a bit when
you're sitting in front of a computer and doing almost the same thing all the time... I'd
guess about six to eight hours straight ahead each, when you are definitely stopping for
nothing. But I'll find the time and go ahead with them soon.

Please, let me know how do you like them and what changes do you suggest for them. I'll
just correct a few "glitches" and I'm posting an address so you can download them from.
I'll ask Dave if he wants (and has room for) hosting them so it's gonna be easy to share
with you all.

Luiz C. Vieira - Brazil

HP82143 Character Set - ASCII codes
These characters are meant to reproduce the characters available with the HP82143A.
Characters do not exactly match the aspect ratio found in original their original printed
characters. Also, all characters originally found in positions 0d to 31d were shifted to
positions 160d to 192d. The concatenation character originally found in position 127d is
also shifted to position 159d.

32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47
space
! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . /
48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ?
64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79

@ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O
80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95

P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _
96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111

` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o
112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127

p q r s t u v w x y z { | } ~
128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143

‚ ƒ „ … † ‡ ˆ ‰ Š ‹ Œ
144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159

‘ ’ “ ” • – — ˜ ™ š › œ Ÿ
160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175

¡ ¢ £ ¤ ¥ ¦ § ¨ © ª « ¬ - ® ¯
176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191

° ± ² ³ ´ µ ¶ · ¸ ¹ º » ¼ ½ ¾ ¿
192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207

À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï
208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223

Ð Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö × Ø Ù Ú Û Ü Ý Þ ß
224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239

à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï
240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255

ð ñ ò ó ô õ ö ÷ ø ù ú û ü ý þ ÿ
Sample:

If NONEXISTENT is shown in the display, the printer prints NONEXISTENT. If flag 13

is set (lower-case), the printer prints nonexistent.
HP82240B ECMA94 Character Set - ASCII codes
These characters are meant to reproduce the ECMA 94 character set found in the
HP82240B. Characters do not exactly match the aspect ratio found in original their original
printed characters. Also, the four arrows originally found in positions 141d, 142d, 143d
and 144d are drawn in ROMA 8 set (positions 250d, 251d, 252d and 253d).