Re: MetaFont

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote:
>>> 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?

Not without a lot of effort. Type3 fonts allow all sorts of stuff
that is illegal in Type1, like overlapping and mixing of strokes
and fills.

Best wishes,
Taco
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