From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 21:49:29 +0200 From: tlaronde@polynum.com To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20110523194929.GA3175@polynum.com> References: <20110520131012.GC3988@polynum.com> <20110523191953.GA11228@polynum.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Subject: Re: [9fans] MetaPost added to kerTeX! Topicbox-Message-UUID: e86a7206-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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... -- Thierry Laronde http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C