From: "Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini" <wwl@musensturm.de>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: MetaFont
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:59:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46C43C1A.10141.55EEBAB@wwl.musensturm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.925.1187183670.2346.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
> > But this does massivly restrict metafonts capabilities. Pens for
> > example are not allowed (Metafont with applied handbrake)!
>
> I agree, metatype1 is not very easy to use if you are familiar
> with
> metafont already. For existing fonts, mf2pt1 is in general the
> best
> approach, I think. There is a (patched?) version out there that
> delegates most the hard work to fontforge, and it's results are
> normally
> quite acceptable.
There was once (1990) an article in TUGboat 11:4, pages 525-541
which discribes an patch to mf84. The patched mf could produce type3
fonts. Should'nt it be possible to do the same for type1?
Wolfgang
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2007-08-16 9:59 ` Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini [this message]
2007-08-16 12:48 ` MetaFont Taco Hoekwater
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2007-08-17 20:53 ` MetaFont Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
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2007-08-15 10:45 ` MetaFont Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
2007-08-15 11:39 ` MetaFont Taco Hoekwater
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2007-08-15 0:10 ` MetaFont Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
2007-08-15 1:09 ` MetaFont Martin Schröder
2007-08-13 11:07 MetaFont Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
2007-08-13 11:18 ` MetaFont Hans Hagen
2007-08-13 11:23 ` MetaFont Martin Schröder
2007-08-14 11:06 ` MetaFont Taco Hoekwater
2007-08-13 11:18 ` MetaFont Martin Schröder
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