Re: [Closed REQ 6022]: where is alphabet.vect?

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For simple text-making, try picking up this tiny perl script:

   ftp://geom.umn.edu/priv/slevy/hvectext.pl

This uses the Hershey vector fonts, in the form included with Ghostscript.
It includes the Hershey Simplex font in the script itself, so you can
make text without getting any other font files.  It writes an OOGL file
to standard output.  Its usage message is:

Usage: hvectext.pl [-w totallength] [-s textheight] [-plane xy|xz|yz] [-at X Y Z]
    [-hershey fontfile.gsf] [-align n|s|e|w|ne|nw|se|sw|c] [--] text string  

Generate geomview/OOGL vector-text object, of given height or total length
(default -s .25), aligning the given corner of the text
(default -align c (centered)) at given point (default -at 0 0 0).
Accepts Ghostscript Hershey fonts; built-in default is Hershey-Plain-Simplex.


In case you want alphabet.vect itself, that's available as
   ftp://geom.umn.edu/priv/slevy/geomview-alphabet.oogl

I'm not sure about the note that this is included in the geomview distribution;
it wasn't in the regular 1.5 distribution, but may well have been in the
special distribution that includes Tamara Munzner's weboogl package.