Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author: Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
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> "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > > The Chinese Academy Of Sciences has published a set of scalable fonts
> > > in several styles, but unfortunately in a proprietary format with
> > > closed-source converters to PK format for usage with TeX.
> > >
> >
> > Is there any descriptions of this format?
>
> I didn't find one when I looked for it a few years ago. Perhaps the
> format description is available in Chinese, but I can't read that.
>
> > What kinds of curves does it use?
>
> I'm not sure if it uses curves at all. :-/
>
Everything uses curves in the end, even things like Type 3 and
METAFONT which are Turing-complete computer programs; at some point
they issue curve-drawing commands, and they are going to do this from
some repetoire, ususally something like straight lines, circular arc
segments, and polynomial splines.
-hpa
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