From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/4316 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: A new metafont (beta test) Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 22:25:38 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20010311222538.01a43100@server-1> References: <3AA17F78.D5CDDCAC@quicknet.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035394995 24763 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:43:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:43:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Taco Hoekwater In-Reply-To: <3AA17F78.D5CDDCAC@quicknet.nl> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:4316 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:4316 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------