For Metafont junkies

For Metafont junkies

[Idris Samawi Hamid]

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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