> Apologies for a late response - but would it be possible to utilize
> the mfplain mode in MetaPost to obtain outlines for the pen-based
> figures in parmesan?
No. An envelope (as produced by a pen) of a third-order B�zier curve
can't be represented by another B�zier curve since it is a sixth-order
curve in general. J�rgen and I will examine glyph by glyph, replacing
the strokes with Bezier approximations. I have a macro in my mind
which could do this approximation automatically for `simple' curves,
but I think it is a cleaner solution to do it manually.
> I have done this with some stroke-based MetaFonts with a good degree
> of success (it just needs a FontForge script to Remove Overlap, as
> the individual strokes are held thus in PostScript).
Tested -- and rejected. It can give disastrous results if you use,
say, an elliptical pen.
Werner
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