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 CONCLUSION

Although the fonts that we have stored as text files using CANDY APPLE are composed mainly of the Hershey characters, it is possible using this program to custom design graphics symbols. In the complex caps font illustrated in Fig. 6, the characters numbered from 28 to 32 are custom designed for logos used at NBS. This customization can be accomplished either by drawing the desired figure on graph paper and then calculating the desired coordinates or by freehand drawing using the cursor input routines of lines 5000-. The current report illustrates over 700 characters which are stored on disk as text files. Listing 3 gives a catalog of the disk containing the programs CANDY APPLE and &LOMEM: as well as the fonts. Reference to this listing shows that the programs need 36 sectors for storage and the fonts use an additional 181 sectors leaving more than 270 sectors avalable for applications programs. Such an application program, CANDY WRAPPER, is described in Appendix A. Copies of CANDY APPLE, &LOMEM:, CANDY WRAPPER, and the fonts may be obtained by contacting the authors at the following mailing address:

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