Re: A new metafont (beta test)

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 12:34 AM 3/4/01 +0100, you wrote:

>Characters I personally don't like much: "&" (very hard to come 
>up with a good shape that fits in), "$" (perhaps one bar would be 
>better), "3" (plain ugly), "AE", "OE" (these don't scale well, 
>the lowercase versions are much better), "invquest", "invexclam"
>(maybe they need to move up to the baseline again).

Ah, so we agree on that. AE is more or less acceptable. Mabye you can turn
them into to touching chars, i.e two up/down strokes in the middle (didn't
test it). The 3 can have a straight top line and a straight slightly curved
(like v) line going from top right to the center. I didn't even recognize
the $. Make it an euro -) Concerning &, maybe an alternative et (small e
with t). The spanish stings, well, it took me some beers to recognize them
as such, but then, many fonts have funny ones, so that's ok, since one will
recognize them by their place in the sentence. 

Nice display fonts! 

Hans    
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