From: "J. R. Mauro" <jrm8005@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Cc: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Fonts
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 15:49:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5AE29BB2-C38B-43DF-A52C-FEBBA3777510@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9ab217670907081200s5ae2ef2ape0241a49d71e9fa3@mail.gmail.com>
On Jul 8, 2009, at 15:00, "Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I have very little idea about these fuckers. I know there are
> baselines and ideas about m's and n's and kerning and whatnot.
>
> But how do you make them? I played with some TTF font generators about
> 10 years ago that I'm sure I illegally obtained somehow, but I realize
> that I have zero idea of how fonts are designed and packaged. Does
> anybody know anything about how fonts are created and packaged (info
> on subfonts would be great, info on TTF would be interesting).
>
> --dho
>
TeX fonts are done in METAFONT, a system that describes fonts in terms
of bezier curves, brush and eraser strokes. Not very popular amongst
people who suck at math.
AFAIK, most fonts are just drawn and converted to bitmaps.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-08 19:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-08 19:00 Devon H. O'Dell
2009-07-08 19:11 ` Joseph Stewart
2009-07-08 19:11 ` Joseph Stewart
2009-07-08 19:49 ` J. R. Mauro [this message]
2009-07-08 19:49 ` Bakul Shah
2009-07-08 20:05 ` Josh Wood
2009-07-08 20:14 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-08 20:15 ` J. R. Mauro
2009-07-08 20:44 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-08 21:44 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-07-08 21:51 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-08 22:21 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-07-09 2:21 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-09 3:17 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-09 5:25 ` Russ Cox
2009-07-09 10:10 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-15 21:01 ` David Leimbach
2009-07-15 21:34 ` Russ Cox
2009-07-09 10:02 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-08 20:50 ` John Floren
2009-07-08 21:42 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-07-08 21:47 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-08 21:49 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-07-08 20:23 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-07-09 15:43 Chad Brown
2009-07-09 15:55 ` Federico G. Benavento
2002-01-07 19:04 forsyth
2002-01-07 18:41 Russ Cox
2002-01-07 20:16 ` Fariborz Tavakkolian
2002-01-07 9:38 skipt
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