FYI: the free program "pfaedit" has a type 3 parser. I haven't tried plugging Feta
into it.
> The problem is
> rather difficult, btw.
The general problem is, of course, but have you bothered to read the feta type 3 code?
There's nothing sophisticated in it and I'm
sure an experienced postscript hacker could cook up (at most) a simple recursive
decent parser to do it, maybe with a little duct
tape.
Any such conversions will still be primitive compared to a "real" type 1 font for
screen output because of lack of hinting. Once
there was an outline conversion, hints could be added by an expert by hand, but that
works against the "everything should have
source code" mentality. IMHO not a huge deal. And hints would be a definite
improvement for a few symbols (accidentals come
immediatly to mind.)
BTW- I was wondering the other day how much nonlinear scaling behavior there is in
feta. (Ie, the thing that Computer Modern does
a lot but TrueType, Type 1, fonts can't.) I don't know enough metafont to see for
myself.
Jeff Henrikson
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> Subject: Re: Type1 fonts
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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> > Furthermore, Syropulos said that
> > there are also people working on procedures based on metapost to
> > Type1. There seems to be a script around called mf2pt1 which does
> > this.
>
> Are there people working on that, do you know an URL? Google never
> heard of mf2pt1. The only tool I know of is MetaFog (part of TrueTeX ,
> http://www.truetex.com/), which is a proprietary package. This
> program provides an exact mf to type-1 conversion. The problem is
> rather difficult, btw.
>
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