> METAFONT is indeed a program that deserves more attention, at least for > mathematicians: if Hilbert had had it, he will have found somebody in > Göttingen to create a font and not use the suboptimal gothic one. > (IMHO, both fonts and the mathematical symbols have not reached a > perfection; and even on a theorical side, one can see that some features > of programming languages have gone farer than mathematics language...) > > For Plan9, this is a task to tackle. > > But adding support for utf-8 in TeX should probably come first.
i would think that if you can display with mf at all, you could easily capture that result with libmemdraw. a plan 9 font is just a bitmap of a bunch of sequential characters plus some bare-bones font metrics. - erik
