Re: Google Summer of Code - Ideas List, please discuss

[Xavier Scheuer]

On 22 February 2012 18:36, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Looks like I sloppily considered Metatype and Metatype1 the same
> project.  The download README is from 2009, and there have been a number
> of fonts produced using it.
> <URL:http://ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/metatype1>
>
> The Polish TeX programmer team is continuing to create fonts using this
> tool as far as I know, though few others have picked it up.
>
> The TeX Gyre project
> <URL:http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/index_html> uses
> it according to its documentation, and works with roundtrips from
> outline PostScript fonts to Metatype1, editing and supplementing
> (diacritics, for one thing) and going back to Type1.

If you want to compare TeXtrace/AutoTrace/potrace, mftrace and
MetaType1 or MetaFog for the Creation of Type 1 Fonts from METAFONT
Source, I think the following article could be really insightful
(TUG March-May 2004 Annual Meeting):

http://www-hep2.fzu.cz/~piska/TUG2004/piskatb2.pdf

Cheers,
Xavier

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Xavier Scheuer <address@hidden>