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Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 21:19:53 +0200
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] MetaPost added to kerTeX!
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On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 06:29:15PM +0000, Mauricio CA wrote:
> >> You can call me Thierry "Hercules" Laronde! since I have cleaned the
> >> Augean Stables. Twice (GRASS and TeX distrib).
>=20
> > Now for the Stymphalian birds!! :-).
>=20
> May I suggest support for using METAFONT to create
> plan9 fonts?

METAFONT is indeed a program that deserves more attention, at least for
mathematicians: if Hilbert had had it, he will have found somebody in
G=F6ttingen to create a font and not use the suboptimal gothic one.
(IMHO, both fonts and the mathematical symbols have not reached a=20
perfection; and even on a theorical side, one can see that some features
of programming languages have gone farer than mathematics language...)

For Plan9, this is a task to tackle.

But adding support for utf-8 in TeX should probably come first.

This is just an idea: not an engagement!
--=20
        Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com>
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