
	Where results make sense

Topic: Metafont

Related Topics

Computers and Typesetting

MetaPost

TeX

Donald Knuth

TeXmacs

Task

Laplace transform applied to differential equations

Burning Man

Holodeck

Scripture

LIVINGtv

Swiftlet

Walkman

2003 New Democratic Party leadership race

Bagpuss

	METAFONT - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		One of the characteristics of METAFONT is that all of the shapes of the glyphs are defined with powerful geometrical equations, e.g., you can define a given point to be the intersection of a line segment and a Bézier cubic.
		Some simpler METAFONT fonts, such as the calligraphic mathematics fonts in the Computer Modern family, use a single pen stroke with a relatively large pen to define each visual "stroke" of the glyphs.
		X installation includes a number of versions of the font in sizes from 5pt to 17pt, with the stroke widths the same in all sizes (rather than increasing as the font is scaled up) and aspect ratios widening in the smaller sizes for increased legibility.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metafont (649 words)

	METAFONT - Wikipedia
		METAFONT ist eine abstrakte Beschreibungssprache zur Definition von Vektorschriften.
		Metafont zeichnet sich von anderen Systemen durch die Variabilität der Fonts durch wenige Parameter wie Seitenverhältnis, Neigung, Strichstärke, Serifengröße aus (deswegen auch das Meta im Namen).
		Vor einiger Zeit ist ein Abkömmling von Metafont entstanden, der eine Postscript-Datei ausgibt: MetaPost.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metafont (619 words)

	Web2c: A TeX implementation - Metafont: Creating typeface families (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Metafont is a system for producing shapes; it was designed for producing complete typeface families, but it can also produce geometric designs, dingbats, etc. And it has considerable mathematical and equation-solving capabilities which can be useful entirely on their own.
		Metafont is a batch language, like C or Pascal: you compile a Metafont program into a corresponding font, rather than interactively drawing lines or curves.
		Usually, when you run Metafont you must supply the name of a mode that was dumped in the base file.
	www.ugcs.caltech.edu /info/teTeX/web2c_5.html (1846 words)

	[No title]
		Metafont processes its command line and determines its memory dump (base) file in a way exactly analogous to MetaPost and TeX (note tex invocation::, and note Memory dumps::).
		Metafont writes the main GF output to the file `BASEMFNAME.NNNgf', where NNN is the font resolution in pixels per inch, and BASEMFNAME is the basename of MFNAME, or `mfput' if no input file was specified.
		Metafont examines the `MFTERM' environment variable or config file value at runtime, or the `TERM' environment variable if `MFTERM' is not set, to determine the device support to use.
	www.mit.edu /afs/dev/project/tetex-2.0.2/info/web2c.info-2 (6588 words)

	Metafont (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Metafont is a programming language used to typeset outline fonts.
		This programming language was devised by Donald Knuth as part of his famous TeX typesetting system.
		One of the characteristics of Metafont is that all the outlines of the glyphs are defined with powerful geometrical equations, eg.
	www.theezine.net /m/metafont.html (128 words)

	Metafont links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Peter R. Wilson's metafont code (2000-2001) for a series of METAFONT fonts and LaTeX packages for typesetting with the manuscript book-hands that were used during the period from the first century until the invention of printing.
		The original METAFONT sources were automatically converted to PFB using Peter Szabo's TeXtrace, and subsequently edited using George Williams' PfaEdit PostScript font editor by Anshuman Pandey (University of Washington).
		Metafont for Klingon, by Khoros sutai-Makpai, aka Karl Günter Wünsch.
	cgm.cs.mcgill.ca /~luc/metafont.html (7330 words)

	METAFONT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Metafont was developed by Donald E Knuth as part of the WhatIsTeX typesetting system.
		Metafont is a graphics programming language (like postscript) that has applications wider than just fonts.
		The shape changes with size, because it is desirable for a smaller font to be proportionately wider than a larger font (this makes the larger fonts more elegant and the smaller font more readable).
	alqua.com /tmresources/METAFONT (152 words)

	Online man Pages for the EOS Lab
		Metafont reads the program in the specified files and outputs font rasters (in gf format) and font metrics (in tfm format).
		Like TeX, Metafont is normally used with a large body of precompiled macros, and font generation in particular requires the support of several macro files.
		Metafont was designed by Donald E. Knuth, who implemented it using his Web system for Pascal programs.
	www.csis.gvsu.edu /GeneralInfo/man.php/man.php?1+mf (1367 words)

	METAFONT UTILITIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Metafont allows you to write the source files which TeX and Latex will invoke at runtime to build the fonts they need : fonts are built according to the desired size and to the resolution of your printer in order to get printed documents with the highest typographic quality.
		Metafont can also be used as a tool to draw pictures (based on Beziers curves and Bernstein polynoms).
		Ordinarily, when you process a font with Metafont, all the characters are displayed very rapidly one after the other.
	perso.easynet.fr /~berdesg/metafont.html (1001 words)

	Knuth: Computers and Typesetting
		METAFONT is a trademark of Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.
		My last will and testament for TeX and METAFONT is that their version numbers ultimately become $\pi$ and $e$, respectively.
		The start of the Millennium is a perfect time to offer users and libraries the opportunity to fill their reference shelves with an up-to-date and comprehensive collection of Knuth's work, as well as to encourage a broad audience of software developers to learn from the complete, robust, and portable systems built by a master programmer.
	www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu /~knuth/abcde.html (1085 words)

	Metafont Mode Help (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Metafont is the programming language written, as a companion to TeX, by Donald Knuth in order to create characters, fonts, font families (and many other things).
		All the remaining submenus contain the basic Metafont commands and macros : any item you choose will be inserted in your file at the cursor's current position with electric tabs for those commands which need arguments.
		With versions of CMacTeX Metafont OLDER than 2.2.1 (this is Metafont's version number, not CMacTeX version number), the output folder defaults to the current window's folder.
	perso.easynet.fr /~berdesg/mfdescription.html (2837 words)

	Metafont (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		METAFONT is a programming language used to produce rasterized outline fonts.
		One of the characteristics of METAFONT is that all the outlines of the glyphs are defined with powerful geometrical equations, e.g., you can define a given point to be the intersection of a segment of line and a Bézier curve.
		Knuth has said that he uses METAFONT as a kind of desk calculator for solving complicated equations.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/M/Metafont.htm (329 words)

	Frequently Asked Questions About Fonts - TeX Utilities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		I am listing MetaFont because it is the obvious font-specific component of TeX and PKtoSFP because it allows anyone to use PS2PK to create LaserJet softfonts.
		Metafont is a programming language for describing fonts.
		A font written in MetaFont is actually a computer program which, when run, will generate a bitmap (`raster') for a given typeface at a given size, for some particular device.
	nwalsh.com /comp.fonts/FAQ/cf_100.htm (335 words)

	Citations: of Computers and Typesetting - Donald, METAFONT, volume (ResearchIndex) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		and METAFONT [5] It seems to me that literate programming is a nice way to describe computer systems and by extension, any codes which might be used with computer systems.
		Indeed, about three fourths of the code in the main source file mp.web is copied from this source by permission from the author.
		MetaPost is a graphics language like METAFONT, but with new primitives for integrating text and graphics and for accessing special features of PostScript 2 such as clipping, shading, and dashed lines.
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /context/108994/0 (2593 words)

	interrogation report: Donald E. Knuth, The Metafont Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Knuth's Metafont system tries to do for fonts what his TeX typesetting system did for setting type.
		The Metafont system describes fonts as a series of brush strokes, but the user can manipulate about fourteen different variables, including stem width, serif curvature, serif length, and slant.
		Although you can create any number of fonts by manipulating the variables of a Metafont font, I find the idea of switching pens and brush strokes clumsy and reminiscent of the Logo programming language.
	www.xmission.com /~jeffress/reports/b/B200125.html (221 words)

	History of TeX
		The topic he presented was his new work on TeX (for typesetting) and Metafont (for developing fonts for use with TeX).
		Metafont - the font creation program - is separate from TeX. It generates only bitmap fonts (although internally it creates outlines on which the bitmaps are based).
		There is still research to be done on combining overlapping outlines into a single outline that can be used like the outline of a type 1 font; Knuth has "frozen" Metafont, so further research and development are being done by someone else, and the result will not be called "Metafont".
	www.tug.org /whatis.html (1269 words)

	TeX Frequently Asked Questions - Section 1
		METAFONT was written by Knuth as a companion to TeX; whereas TeX defines the layout of glyphs on a page, METAFONT defines the shapes of the glyphs and the relations between them.
		METAFONT details the sizes of glyphs, for TeX's benefit, and details the rasters used to represent the glyphs, for the benefit of programs that will produce printed output as post processes after a run of TeX.
		TeX (and METAFONT and MetaPost) are written in a `literate' programming language called Web which is designed to be portable across a wide range of computer systems.
	www.it.ms.unimelb.edu.au /tex/help/faq/uktug-faq/texfaq_1.html (2614 words)

	Re: Ini-Metafont
		You can enter them directly, but these are the proper lines to use Ini-Metafont with mf.exe (an 8086 version, not recommended if you have a 286 or higher computer).
		Neither TeX format files (.fmt) nor MetaFont* base files (*.bas) are normally distributed with emTeX beta versions.
		However, if you want to have both big and normal-sized base files, you only need mf186.exe as small metafont and mf386.exe as big metafont (the first creates standard--sized base files and the second BIG ones).
	www.uni-giessen.de /hrz/tex/more_info/info/mailarchiv/emtex.1995/msg00022.html (352 words)

	Font utilities - Proofing with Metafont (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		While creating fonts, it is useful to enlarge the character shapes enough to be able to make out small details.
		Metafont works together with GFtoDVI, another program created as part of the TeX project, to do this.
		In order to calculate this, Metafont must also know the resolution of the final output device.
	ofb.net /gnu/fontutils/fontu_86.html (426 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Running Metafont is not trivial, but this Metafont behaves exactly like the metafonts in the unix and vms worlds.
		Metafont adds the font to the MFfonts suitcase and creates an MFmetrics suitcase (you can see the latter and you can double-click the former to examine the contents---that's how I found out I wasn't getting anything).
		A promising new port of TeX, LaTeX, Metafont (0.66), BibTex, and Metapost(!) for the Mac was promulgated this April.
	mirrors.ibiblio.org /pub/mirrors/CTAN/info/digests/texhax/96/texhax.11 (1942 words)

	[No title]
		By default, Metafont runs an external program named `MakeTeXMF' to create any nonexistent Metafont source files you input.
		This is mostly for the sake of the DC fonts, which can be generated at any size.
		1314: "Using character substitution: " (23617 characters in all.) In Metafont and MetaPost, the first 256 characters are actually represented as single bytes (i.e., themselves), not in the `^^' notation.
	www.mit.edu /afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/tex-new/info/web2c.info-2 (6267 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		If, when you run Metafont, you see "preloaded base = cmplain", compile another Metafont executable file with plain preloaded rather than cmplain, and use that one for generating the Euler fonts.
		The file modes.mf is now the standard for use with Metafont, and the file amsmodes.mf is no longer of any use.
		Some users may find that their Metafont does not have sufficient memory to accomodate the entire modes.mf file.
	web.lemoyne.edu /courseinformation/emtex/doc/amsfonts/READ.ME2 (414 words)

	Re: Metafont/mfjob problem
		I have been able to > reproduce the problem with a short mfj file so I presume the problem > is with my installation of metafont > or mfjob rather than dvidrv.
		> etc etc This output indicates that metafont has got itself into proof mode, as also shown by the size of the *.gf file and the extension.312 which should have been.360 This is possibly as a result of some conflict between modes.
		The mode name was changed from hplaser to laserjet in a recent distribution.
	www.uni-giessen.de /hrz/tex/more_info/info/mailarchiv/emtex.1995/msg00355.html (283 words)

	Computers & Typesetting, Volume C: The Metafont Book - $38.47 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		METAFONT, created by author Donald E. Knuth, is a computer language that allows you to produce professional quality typefaces using mathematical type design.
		Using METAFONT, it is possible to customize a type design that already exists, or even to create an entire alphabet from scratch.
		Noteworthy by-products of those activities were the WEB and CWEB languages for structured documentation, and the accompanying methodology of Literate Programming.
	www.awprofessional.com /catalog/product.asp?product_id={27AADE0A-B3C5-4F6E-B79F-5A53027EA008} (805 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Metafont Book (Computers & Typesetting) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		METAFONT is a system for the design of symbols and alphabetic characters suited to raster-based devices that print or display text.
		The construction of a typeface is an art form and this manual is written for people who wish to advance the quality of mathematical typesetting.
		With this manual, readers will learn how to write a program using METAFONT that can customize a type design that already exists, create an entire alphabet from scratch, and create logos or special symbols.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201134446?v=glance (911 words)

	[comp.text.tex] Metafont: All fonts available in .mf format
		Newsgroups: comp.text.tex, comp.fonts From: lee@sq.com (Liam Quin) Subject: [comp.text.tex] Metafont: All fonts available in.mf format Message-ID: Summary:.mf files are font outlines that you can use with mf to generate pk or gf format TeX bitmap fonts.
		In order to use a metafont format font, you'll need to have metafont, or a program such as mf2ps.
		The skt-series of fonts are written in METAFONT and include feint, normal and bold weights, together with slant and upright styles.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/fonts-faq/metafont-list (3260 words)

	METAFONT Output from KnotPlot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		METAFONT is a typeface design tool developed by Donald Knuth as part of the TeX project.
		This may appear to be a rather bizarre application, but such characters could be used (say for example) as subscripts in a skein relation.
		In addition to this METAFONT, construction of Postscript type-1 and type-3 fonts are also underway, let me know if you'd prefer these (there are advantages and disadvantages).
	www.cs.ubc.ca /nest/imager/contributions/scharein/metafont/metafont.html (150 words)

	web2c : Metafont
		`inimf' invocation ================== `inimf' is the "initial" form of Metafont, which does lengthy initializations avoided by the "virgin" (`vir') form, so as to be capable of dumping `.base' files (*note Memory dumps::).
		`virmf' invocation ================== `virmf' is the "virgin" form of Metafont, which avoids the lengthy initializations done by the "initial" (`ini') form, and is thus what is generally used for production work.
		MFT: Prettyprinting Metafont source =================================== MFT translates a Metafont program into a TeX document suitable for typesetting, with the aid of TeX macros defined in the file `mftmac.tex'.
	techpubs.sgi.com /library/dynaweb_docs/fw/usr/freeware/info_tpl/web2c/web2c_4.html (2410 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)