On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 03:21:17PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
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> i would think that if you can display with mf at all, you could easily
> capture that result with libmemdraw. a plan 9 font is just a bitmap of
> a bunch of sequential characters plus some bare-bones font metrics.
There are already tools to translate tfm (TeX Font Metrics) to afm; and
the fonts are bitmapped ones. So indeed, it should not be difficult.
There is also a way to convert fonts to METAFONT. For example the
Hershey fonts, "vectorial" (linestrings), can easily be converted to
basic METAFONT programs (I've already done that). That would create a
basis for diverse latin fonts (including "cursives) and even for eastern
Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana fonts...
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