From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] MetaPost added to kerTeX!
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 15:21:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a193f8ba50199b0a3afcf22646a0c342@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110523191953.GA11228@polynum.com>
> METAFONT is indeed a program that deserves more attention, at least for
> mathematicians: if Hilbert had had it, he will have found somebody in
> Göttingen to create a font and not use the suboptimal gothic one.
> (IMHO, both fonts and the mathematical symbols have not reached a
> 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.
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.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-23 19:21 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 [this message]
2011-05-23 19:49 ` tlaronde
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