From: "Idris Samawi Hamid" <ishamid@colostate.edu>
Subject: For Metafont junkies
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 22:12:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.s1553bkpnx1yh1@walayah1.wildblue.com> (raw)
Dearest gang,
As TeX moves into the 21'st century (pdfetex, ConTeXt, etc.) what about
Metafont? Erik van Blokland and Co. have come up with the foundation of
what could be a new and better "MetaFont", using Python:
http://letterror.com/code/robofab/index.html
The font development model looks very familiar:
http://erik.letterror.com/typemedia/draw/drawingForInterpolation.pdf
-)
And it works with the latest FontLab (which uses python for extensions),
so there's your gui-)
built on RoboFab is Superpolator:
http://letterror.com/code/superpolator/index.html
The last is not free, but takes things to a whole other level. In any
case, I think Erik has charted out a path that TeX should consider with
respect to realizing the other half of Knuth's dream.
Happy Holidays
Idris
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