On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 03:18:40PM +0100, Steve Simon wrote:
> Thinking of tackeling ghostscript again but failed at the first hurdle,
> it needs autotools to build...
Plan A, create a SmallScript borrowing the rasterizing routines of
METAFONT and not aiming to be a full PostScript interpreter.
Plan B, get rid of PostScript altogether and use TeX and METAFONT and/or
fonts available with the glyphes, and render directly from dvi to pdf,
dvi to raw (image), dvi to pcl; even using virtual fonts to render
approximately fonts not present with glyphes definition for
previsualisation, and using dvips for direct printing to real
PostScript interpreters (with embedded compliant PostScript standard
fonts).
Isn't there a sentence about "wanting a banana, and being forced to
have a Gorilla handing the banana with the whole jungle around"?
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