Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanw...@gmail.com> writes: > 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 This looks very outdated, and it seems to use autotrace.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.
Looks like I sloppily considered Metatype and Metatype1 the same project. The download README is from 2009, and there have been a number of fonts produced using it. <URL:http://ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/metatype1> The Polish TeX programmer team is continuing to create fonts using this tool as far as I know, though few others have picked it up. The TeX Gyre project <URL:http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/index_html> uses it according to its documentation, and works with roundtrips from outline PostScript fonts to Metatype1, editing and supplementing (diacritics, for one thing) and going back to Type1. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel