HERSHEY-FONT-GNUPLOT(1)

📦 version 0.1, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 HERSHEY-FONT-GNUPLOT(1) 💖

okay bestie, listen — this is a General Commands Manual page, section 1, and it's about hershey-font-gnuplot, a little icon that renders Hershey vector fonts for gnuplot. no cap. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

hershey-font-gnuplot — a Hershey vector fonts renderer for gnuplot 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

hershey-font-gnuplot [options] font 'Text to Render'

hershey-font-gnuplot [options] font

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so the Hershey fonts?? a whole collection of vector fonts, developed circa 1967 by Dr. A. V. Hershey. vintage. iconic. main character energy fr fr 💅

hershey-font-gnuplot renders Hershey font text in the form of a gnuplot input file. and like, its output must be piped to gnuplot, bestie — check the EXAMPLES section down below for how that works. 👇

and here's the cute part: if you don't specify a 'Text to Render', it generates a font sample sheet displaying all the font's glyphs. a little showcase. a little vibe check of every letter. obsessed. 💖

🎀 FONTS 🎀

the font parameter has to be either the name of a system-installed Hershey font or the filename of a Hershey font .jhf file. easy!

the Hershey fonts likely to be installed are:

  • astrology
  • cursive
  • cyrillic
  • futural
  • futuram
  • gothgbt
  • gothgrt
  • gothiceng
  • gothicger
  • gothicita
  • gothitt
  • greekc
  • greek
  • greeks
  • japanese
  • markers
  • mathlow
  • mathupp
  • meteorology
  • music
  • rowmand
  • rowmans
  • rowmant
  • scriptc
  • scripts
  • symbolic
  • timesg
  • timesib
  • timesi
  • timesrb
  • timesr

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -T 'gnuplot_terminal_type [gnuplot_terminal_opts]' — sets the gnuplot output type and options, like:
-T pdf
-T png
-T 'png crop transparent'

for even more output type options, go peek at gnuplot's set terminal command. and if you don't specify this at all? an X11 window display (wxt) gets selected. surprise pop-up window, love that for you 🫶

  • -h font_height — sets the font height in pixels (default 100). big letters, tiny letters, you choose 💜

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

the moment you've been waiting for. copy these, they're perfect:

hershey-font-gnuplot japanese | gnuplot -p

hershey-font-gnuplot futural   'Hello World!' | gnuplot -p

hershey-font-gnuplot gothiceng 'Calligraphy'  | gnuplot -p

hershey-font-gnuplot -T 'png crop' scriptc 'Nice Text' | gnuplot > out.png
reminder bestie: the output has to go through gnuplot — it's a gnuplot input file, not a picture by itself. pipe it or it does nothing. periodt. 💀

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

  • gnuplot(1) — go say hi, it's the whole other half of this relationship 💞

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

hershey-font-gnuplot was written by Kamal Mostafa <kamal@whence.com>. we stan. 👑

and that's the whole page bestie!! version/date tea for the archive: this was dated 27 November 2013 and it lives in the HERSHEY-FONT-GNUPLOT(1) section of the manual. now go pipe something into gnuplot and slay 💖✨🎀🦋

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