On 2/22/12 10:17 AM, "Han-Wen Nienhuys" <hanw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>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 This looks very outdated, and it seems to use autotrace.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. Metatype1 is hosted on a polish server: http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/metatype1 and was updated in 2009 on the CTAN: http://ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/metatype1 Since it's now 2012, I guess one could say the project died. The project is placed in the public domain, so we could include it in LilyPond if we wanted to. Thanks, Carl _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
