From: tlaronde@polynum.com
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] MetaPost added to kerTeX!
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 21:49:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110523194929.GA3175@polynum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a193f8ba50199b0a3afcf22646a0c342@brasstown.quanstro.net>
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 03:21:17PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
>
> i would think that if you can display with mf at all, you could easily
> capture that result with libmemdraw. a plan 9 font is just a bitmap of
> a bunch of sequential characters plus some bare-bones font metrics.
There are already tools to translate tfm (TeX Font Metrics) to afm; and
the fonts are bitmapped ones. So indeed, it should not be difficult.
There is also a way to convert fonts to METAFONT. For example the
Hershey fonts, "vectorial" (linestrings), can easily be converted to
basic METAFONT programs (I've already done that). That would create a
basis for diverse latin fonts (including "cursives) and even for eastern
Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana fonts...
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-23 19:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-20 13:10 tlaronde
2011-05-20 13:23 ` Alexander Sychev
2011-05-20 13:35 ` Brian L. Stuart
2011-05-20 14:57 ` Gorka Guardiola
2011-05-23 18:29 ` Mauricio CA
2011-05-23 19:19 ` tlaronde
2011-05-23 19:21 ` erik quanstrom
2011-05-23 19:49 ` tlaronde [this message]
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