Re: tx fonts [Re: [Texmacs-dev] txexa font]

[Joris van der Hoeven]

On 13 May 2003, Nix N. Nix wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 12:32, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> > Yes, I can do that, but I want to make sure that this is
> > the right solution; it seems really very hacky...
>
> I remember you were worried about getting the anti-aliasing right.
> Consider:  The \braceld etc. characters have the necessary hints to get
> them rendered just so.  The \bracext character was designed to be
> rendered alongside the brace extremities, so it stands to reason that it
> too should look alright alongside them.

The antialiasing is still another problem. In order to get it right,
one either has to blur the extension characters so that their width
becomes an entire multiple of the shrinking factor, or to glue
the characters together as bitmaps themselves. Metafont does provide
no solution for this problem, because it was designed for block-on-white
rendering, not anti-aliasing.