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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<inkscape-extension xmlns="http://www.inkscape.org/namespace/inkscape/extension">
  <_name>Hershey Text</_name>
  <id>org.evilmad.render.hershe</id>
  <dependency type="executable" location="extensions">hershey.py</dependency>
  <dependency type="executable" location="extensions">hersheydata.py</dependency>
  <dependency type="executable" location="extensions">inkex.py</dependency>

  <param name="tab" type="notebook">
    <page name="splash" _gui-text="Render Text">
      <param name="text" type="string" _gui-text="Text:">Hershey Text for Inkscape</param>

      <param name="action" type="enum" _gui-text="Action: ">
        <_item value="render">Typeset that text</_item>
        <_item value="table" >Write glyph table</_item> 
      </param>

      <param name="fontface" type="enum" _gui-text="Font face: ">
        <_item value="futural">Sans 1-stroke</_item>
        <_item value="futuram">Sans bold</_item> 

        <_item value="timesr">Serif medium</_item>
        <_item value="timesi">Serif medium italic</_item>
        <_item value="timesib">Serif bold italic</_item>
        <_item value="timesrb">Serif bold</_item>

        <_item value="scripts">Script 1-stroke</_item>
        <_item value="cursive">Script 1-stroke (alt)</_item>
        <_item value="scriptc">Script medium</_item>

        <_item value="gothiceng">Gothic English</_item>
        <_item value="gothicger">Gothic German</_item>
        <_item value="gothicita">Gothic Italian</_item>	   

        <_item value="greek">Greek 1-stroke</_item>
        <_item value="timesg">Greek medium</_item>
        <_item value="cyrillic">Cyrillic</_item>		
        <_item value="japanese">Japanese</_item> 

        <_item value="astrology">Astrology</_item>
        <_item value="mathlow">Math (lower)</_item>
        <_item value="mathupp">Math (upper)</_item>
        <_item value="markers">Markers</_item> 
        <_item value="meteorology">Meteorology</_item>
        <_item value="music">Music</_item>
        <_item value="symbolic">Symbolic</_item>

      </param>
      <_param name="emptyspace" type="description" xml:space="preserve"> 



</_param>

    </page>
    <page name="info" _gui-text="About...">
      <_param name="aboutpage" type="description" xml:space="preserve">
This extension renders a line of text using
"Hershey" fonts for plotters, derived from 
NBS SP-424 1976-04, "A contribution to 
computer typesetting techniques: Tables of
Coordinates for Hershey's Repertory of
Occidental Type Fonts and Graphic Symbols."

These are not traditional "outline" fonts, 
but are instead "single-stroke" fonts, or
"engraving" fonts where the character is
formed by the stroke (and not the fill).

For additional information, please visit:
  www.evilmadscientist.com/go/hershey</_param>
    </page>
  </param>

  <effect needs-live-preview="true" needs-document="true">
    <object-type>all</object-type>
    <effects-menu>
      <submenu _name="Render"/>
    </effects-menu>
  </effect>
    <script>
      <command reldir="extensions" interpreter="python">hershey.py</command>
    </script>
</inkscape-extension>