From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/24618 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Idris Samawi Hamid" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: For Metafont junkies Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 22:12:37 -0700 Organization: Colorado State University Message-ID: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1135228597 5557 80.91.229.2 (22 Dec 2005 05:16:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 05:16:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Dec 22 06:16:34 2005 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 ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EpIoa-0005YF-OR for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 06:16:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 557FD1282D; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 06:16:32 +0100 (CET) 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 10462-02; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 06:16:31 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E07B12829; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 06:12:55 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B62312829 for ; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 06:12:53 +0100 (CET) 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 10158-05 for ; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 06:12:52 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from trueband.net (director.trueband.net [216.163.120.8]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 1D6E61277E for ; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 06:12:51 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: (qmail 25020 invoked by uid 1006); 22 Dec 2005 05:12:50 -0000 Original-Received: from ishamid@colostate.edu by rs0 by uid 1003 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (spamassassin: 2.64. Clear:SA:0(0.0/100.0):. Processed in 3.11352 secs); 22 Dec 2005 05:12:50 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO trueband.net) (172.16.0.9) by -v with SMTP; 22 Dec 2005 05:12:47 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 14382 invoked from network); 22 Dec 2005 05:12:46 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO walayah1.wildblue.com) (70.41.5.66) by -v with SMTP; 22 Dec 2005 05:12:46 -0000 Original-To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" User-Agent: Opera M2/8.51 (Win32, build 7712) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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:24618 Archived-At: Dearest gang, As TeX moves into the 21'st century (pdfetex, ConTeXt, etc.) what about =20 Metafont? Erik van Blokland and Co. have come up with the foundation of =20 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), = =20 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 =20 case, I think Erik has charted out a path that TeX should consider with =20 respect to realizing the other half of Knuth's dream. Happy Holidays Idris --=20 Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/