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From: saurabhb17
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 16:04:40 +0530
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+Newstroke Font Readme
+=====================
+
+Newstroke is a stroke (plotter) font originally designed for KiCAD.
+
+Project homepage: http://vovanium.ru/sledy/newstroke
+
+Files
+-----
+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
+------------
+KiCAD (http://kicad.sourceforge.net/) - for glyph editing
+AWK - for font generating
+
+Usage
+-----
+* 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 CC0 licence.
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