On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:12 PM, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanw...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 4:42 AM, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: >>>>> Somewhat independently, there is a mf2pt1.pl Perl script that >>>>> (shudder) generates .pe script to transform a metapost output to a >>>>> Type 1 font. I guess that could be done more concisely directly as >>>>> a python script. >>>> >>>> This sounds like a very nice addition. Maybe generating Python should >>>> be the default, retaining the old .pe approach with as an option. The >>>> FontForge list is quite helpful in case questions arise. >>>> >>>> Scott Pakin, author of mf2pt1, will certainly add any improvements. >>> >>> There is also a program/utility Metatype in the TeX world, and it has >>> been used for generating various Type1 fonts from Metafont sources. >> >> This looks very outdated, and it seems to use autotrace. We abandoned >> traced outlines for exact conversions a few years ago. > > I should be surprised, actually. The Wikipedia page is at > <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/METATYPE1>, and it explicitly states > that it can only work with filled outlines rather than pens, and the > toolchain processes the Bezier outlines from METAPOST. For an > autotraced outline, that would make no sense, and there is no mention of > any tracing tool in the process. I think that the Type1 versions of the > ec fonts were created with some kind of autotracing of large bitmaps, > but the Latin Modern fonts, as far as I know, were created using special > font sources adapted for Metatype1. The whole Metatype1 project came > into being because the Polish programmers did not consider the > autotraced bitmap fonts to be of sufficient quality.
I was looking at http://metatype.sourceforge.net/ . Your wikipedia page doesn't host a live link, so I suppose the project died. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - han...@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel