On Jul 8, 2009, at 15:00, "Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.od...@gmail.com> wrote:
I have very little idea about these fuckers. I know there are baselines and ideas about m's and n's and kerning and whatnot. But how do you make them? I played with some TTF font generators about 10 years ago that I'm sure I illegally obtained somehow, but I realize that I have zero idea of how fonts are designed and packaged. Does anybody know anything about how fonts are created and packaged (info on subfonts would be great, info on TTF would be interesting). --dho
TeX fonts are done in METAFONT, a system that describes fonts in terms of bezier curves, brush and eraser strokes. Not very popular amongst people who suck at math.
AFAIK, most fonts are just drawn and converted to bitmaps.
