another nice new metapost trick: outline fonts

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Hi, 

After playing a bit with pstoedit i was able to cook up a utility that
enables metapost to handle outline fonts; think of: 

beginfig (1) ;
  graphictext
    "\framed[frame=off,width=10cm,align=normal]{\input tufte }"
    scaled 8
  % slanted .2
    withdrawcolor blue
    withfillcolor red
    withpen pencircle scaled 2pt ;
endfig ;

This also works in macros [like textext does] and uses makempy [a simple
perl script] to prepare a file suitable for mp. This is a rather generic
feature btw. An example can be found at:  

  http://www.pragma-ade.com/pragma-tmp/metafun/outline-1.pdf

The other trick, embedded graphics, can be found at:

  http://www.pragma-ade.com/pragma-tmp/metafun/metajoke.pdf

So, now we can make fancy titlepages, 

Hans
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