I am 
     Frank Sergeant
     frank.sergeant@pobox.com
     http://www.eskimo.com/~pygmy.

This collection of files includes:

     readme          -- this file
     ibmenc.ps       -- a Postscript encoding array arranging the
                        characters of the IBM-supplied Courier
                        font to correspond to the 8-bit character
                        codes used on an IBM PC.
     ibmoem.ps       -- Postscript code to use the above encoding
                        array to recode the IBM Courier font.
     IBM.LCM         -- The Lout file that recodes the IBM Courier
                        font

I am writing this on September 2, 1997.

The reason for this work was to allow me to print IBM PC
screen images, including the IBM line drawing characters,
in a manual. 

Thanks to help I received on the Lout mailing list, I was able
to locate the IBM Courier font (the files cour.pfa and cour.afm)
at

   ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/R6.3/xc/fonts/scaled/Type1

I edited the cour.pfa and cour.afm to change FontName,
FullName, and FamilyName from Courier to cour-ibm.  I
think this was unnecessary.

To use the IBM PC font in a raw Postscript file, it
is only necessary to put the following in the Postscript
file:

     (ibmoem.ps) run     % to recode the font
     /cour-ibm-oem findfont 10 scalefont setfont
   
The Lout home page is at http://www.ptc.spbu.ru/~uwe/lout.
See the mailing list archives for more information about
how to use the above IBM.LCM with Lout.  It basically involves
putting the fonts in the correct places and then putting
a line such as the following in your document or in an
included file:

  fontdef cour-ibm Base { cour-ibm cour.afm IBM.LCM Recode }

I suppose it is needless to say, but in case it is not,
various marks (such as IBM, Postscript, etc.) mentioned 
in these documents are owned by their respective mark owners.


  -- Frank                
