From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/36063 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: MetaFont Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:59:22 +0200 Message-ID: <46C43C1A.10141.55EEBAB@wwl.musensturm.de> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187258630 15415 80.91.229.12 (16 Aug 2007 10:03:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:03:50 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Aug 16 12:03:48 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ILcCi-0004w0-EZ for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:03:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4F6220286; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:03:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 22365-08-3; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:03:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29FD620272; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:03:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C413E20272 for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:03:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 22365-08-2 for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:03:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.179]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 023A82024A for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:03:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [89.13.24.225] (helo=[192.168.178.21]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu5) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0ML25U-1ILcC00URJ-0000pW; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:03:28 +0200 Priority: normal In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.31, DE v4.31 R1) Content-description: Mail message body X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19qyZLLjv7+5RnbbkX7hXKg3j5hlerIha/Tol0 KFGdXDRFCHqW+JFPiNYkuxbtSwF8ePppx/FKobE5T3+GgcBOjl /nGbGFMmBfhwjZB5rPM7FDtEQHo2DDA X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:36063 Archived-At: > > 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________