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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 15:21:17 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] MetaPost added to kerTeX!
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> 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