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+This program converts bitmap fonts to a homegrown outline format, bezier
+(BZR). The program `bzrto' converts that format to something usable for
+typesetting.
+
+We used two main sources in writing the program:
+
+@mastersthesis{Schneider:PIC-88,
+ author = "Philip J. Schneider",
+ title = "Phoenix: An Interactive Curve Design System Based on the
+ Automatic Fitting of Hand-Sketched Curves",
+ school = inst-u-wash,
+ year = 1988,
+}
+
+@article{Plass:CG-17-229,
+ author = "Michael Plass and Maureen Stone",
+ title = "Curve-fitting with Piecewise Parametric Cubics",
+ journal = j-comp-graphics,
+ year = 1983,
+ volume = 17,
+ number = 3,
+ month = jul,
+ pages = "229-239",
+}
+
+We had access to the code for Phoenix, thanks to Philip, but none of our
+code is based on his (mostly because his task was allow interactive
+sketching, and ours to fit bitmap characters, and the two require
+different data structures). The general outline of the fitting
+algorithm does come from Phoenix.
+
+We also found this article helpful:
+
+@Inproceedings{Gonczarowski:RIDT91-1,
+ author = "Jakob Gonczarowski",
+ title = "A Fast Approach to Auto-tracing (with Parametric
+ Cubics)",
+ pages = "1--15",
+ crossref = "Morris:RIDT91",
+ acknowledgement = ack-kb,
+}
+
+@String{proc-RIDT91 = "Raster Imaging and Digital Typography II"}
+
+@Proceedings{Morris:RIDT91,
+ title = proc-RIDT91,
+ booktitle = proc-RIDT91,
+ year = "1991",
+ editor = "Robert A. Morris and Jacques Andr{\'e}",
+ publisher = pub-CUP,
+ address = pub-CUP:adr,
+ acknowledgement = ack-kb,
+}
+
+(These BibTeX entries are from the type.bib and ep.bib files on
+math.utah.edu:pub/tex/bib.)