Do we have any Nova fonts?

[Ron Kaplan]

There is a lispusers file that loads them. Do we have any? Is the loader obsolete?

[Nick Briggs]

In the Envos repository, at least --

xd0e.tar.txt:-rw-rwxr--  0 0      21     295664 Feb 19  1986 ./LISPCORE/xeroxprivate/fonts/OptimaItalic.NovaFont

xd0e.tar.txt:-rw-rwxr--  0 0      21     293384 Feb 19  1986 ./LISPCORE/xeroxprivate/fonts/OptimaMedium.NovaFont

I believe it's the format that the Viewpoint fonts were distributed in.

On Apr 13, 2026, at 23:44, Ron Kaplan <ron.k...@post.harvard.edu> wrote:

There is a lispusers file that loads them.  Do we have any?  Is the loader obsolete?

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[Nick Briggs]

You'll notice the list of font family names that showed up as Novafonts --

(RPAQQ \\NOVAFONTFAMILYNAMES ((0 . |Classic|) (1 . |Modern|) (2 . |Titan|) (3 . |Pica|) (4 . |Trojan|) (5 . |Vintage|) (6 . |Elite|) (7 . |LetterGothic|) (8 . |Master|) (9 . |Cubic|) (10 . |Roman|) (11 . |Scientific|) (12 . |Gothic|) (13 . |Bold|) (14 . |OcrB|) (15 . |Spokesman|) (16 . |XeroxLogo|) (17 . |CenturyThin|) (18 . |ScientificThin|) (19 . |Helvetica|) (20 . |HelveticaCondensed|) (21 . |Optima|) (22 . |Times|) (23 . |Baskerville|) (24 . |Spartan|) (25 . |Bodoni|) (26 . |Palatino|) (27 . |Caledonia|) (28 . |Memphis|) (29 . |Excelsior|) (30 . |Olympian|) (31 . |Univers|) (32 . |UniversCondensed|) (33 . |Trend|) (34 . |BoxPS|) (35 . |Terminal|) (36 . |OcrA|) (37 . |Logo1|) (38 . |Logo2|) (39 . |Logo3|) (40 . |Geneva2|) (41 . |Times2|) (42 . |Square3|) (43 . |Courier|) (44 . |Futura|) (45 . |Prestige|) (46 . |ALLetterGothic|) (47 . |CenturySchoolBook|) (48 . |Spare1|) (49 . |Spare2|) (50 . |Spare3|) (51 . |Spare4|) (52 . |Spare5|) (53 . |Melior|) (54 . |PCTerminal|) (55 . |ITCAmericanTypewriter|) (56 . |ITCAvantGardeGothic|) (57 . |ITCAvantGardeGothicCondensed|) (58 . |ITCBauhaus|) (59 . |ITCBarcelona|) (60 . |ITCBenguiat|) (61 . |ITCBenguiatCondensed|) (62 . |ITCBenguiatGothic|) (63 . |ITCBerkeleyOldStyle|) (64 . |ITCBookman|) (65 . |ITCCaslonNo224|) (66 . |ITCCentury|) (67 . |ITCCheltenham|) (68 . |ITCClearface|) (69 . |ITCCushing|) (70 . |ITCEras|) (71 . |ITCFenice|) (72 . |ITCFranklinGothic|) (73 . |ITCFrizQuadrata|) (74 . |ITCGalliard|) (75 . |ITCGaramond|) (76 . |ITCIsbell|) (77 . |ITCItalia|) (78 . |ITCKabel|) (79 . |ITCKorinna|) (80 . |ITCLubalinGraph|) (81 . |ITCModernNo216|) (82 . |ITCNewBaskerville|) (83 . |ITCNewtext|) (84 . |ITCNovarese|) (85 . |ITCQuorum|) (86 . |ITCSerifGothic|) (87 . |ITCSouvenir|) (88 . |ITCSymbol|) (89 . |ITCTiffany|) (90 . |ITCUsherwood|) (91 . |ITCWeidemann|) (92 . |ITCVeljovic|) (93 . |ITCZapfBook|) (94 . |ITCZapfChancery|) (95 . |ITCZapfDingbats|) (96 . |ITCZapfInternational|) (97 . |Cipher|) (98 . |FlemishScriptII|) (99 . |Quartz|) (100 . |QuartzA|) (101 . |QuartzT|) (102 . |Souvenir|) (103 . |Shimmer|) (104 . APL) (105 . |Arrows|) (106 . |BravoX|) (107 . |ClassicPiOne|) (108 . |ClassicPiTwo|) (109 . |Cream|) (110 . |Cyrillic|) (111 . |Dots|) (112 . |Gacha|) (113 . |Gates|) (114 . |HelveticaD|) (115 . |Hippo|) (116 . |Keyhole|) (117 . |Laurel|) (118 . |LogoOutline|) (119 . |LSIGates|) (120 . |MarqHippo|) (121 . |MarqRoman|) (122 . |Math|) (123 . |Mathology|) (124 . |OldEnglish|) (125 . |RomanPS|) (126 . |Sigma|) (127 . |Splunk|) (128 . |Template|) (129 . |Testfont|) (130 . |TimesRoman|) (131 . |TimesRomanD|) (132 . |TitanLegal|) (133 . WSSA) (134 . |XeroxBook|) (135 . |LucidaRoman|) (136 . |MonoSpace|) (137 . |Spare6|) (138 . |Spare7|) (139 . |Spare8|) (140 . |Spare9|) (141 . |Spare10|)))

Some of them we have as .displayfont files, some we didn't extract... 

[Ron Kaplan]

So, is it worth setting it up so that if you load NOVAFONT and ask FONTCREATE to create a font with a novafont name, it will automatically construct one?

This requires having a NOVAFONTFILEP predicate, and functions NOVAFONT.GETCHARSET.DISPLAY and NOVAFONT.GETCHARSET.IP