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Date: Mon,  1 Feb 2016 21:43:52 +0100
From: tlaronde@polynum.com
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: [9fans] kerTeX update; but please wait for rio...
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Hello,

I have updated kerTeX with the latest sources from Donald E. Knuth (and
the latest version of the AMS fonts).

Mainly (I have only resumed working on it after months of ENOTIME), I
wanted to add METAFONT online graphics output (the rendering on screen
of METAFONT drawing) and have done it for X11 2D system. (Why? First,
because it allows to use the totality of what is described in the
METAFONTbook; Second, because it shows that METAFONT is not only a
interpreter/compiler for a drawing language but a _rasterizer_. Smaller
than gs if you see what I mean...)

The next 2D interface will be Plan9/rio (I will finish with "native"
compilation on Windows and Windows/GDI).

So please wait a little, time for me to restore a plan9 environment and
to put the rio interface for METAFONT.

It should not take long... if I find the correct slot of free time...

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        Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com>
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