Re: Metafont and Context

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 16:10 20/05/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>On Sun, 18 May 2003 22:40:48 +0200
>"Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini" <wwl@musensturm.de> wrote:
>
> > > > Has anybody written typescripts for one of the Metafonts available
> > > > at CTAN and can send me an example or two?
>
>I've added a Metafont example to my page:
>
>     http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html#newfont-mf
>
>I don't know much about Metafont, and your comments (as always) are
>welcome.
>
>In particular, I have two questions:
>
>(1) I don't specify encoding, because I'm not sure how encoding
>interacts with MF. Is it even required? The typescript works without
>encoding references.

depends on the font, from the perspective of tex only the tfm matters (not 
the pk/pfb/ttf); the only tricky thing with mf files is that you may need 
to generate a lot of sizes

>(2) texexec + pdftex do not generate .pk files like xdvi does. Is that
>an option I've missed? In the example I give I first create a .dvi
>version of the file and have xdvi create the .pk files, which then can
>be read by pdftex.

this depends on your pdftex configuration; pdftex can handle pfb/ttf, pk, 
and (from past times) glyph containers

Hans
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