On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 07:29:54PM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote:
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> have a look at
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> http://www.myfonts.com/Person295.html
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> Herbert
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As far as I understand English, that sentence says that Zapf and other
gave recommendations for improvement of Metafont _program_ _not_ CM.
Check out the book:
Hermann Zapf & his design philosophy : selected articles and
lectures on calligraphy and contemporary developments in type
design, with illustrations and bibliographical notes, and a
complete list of his typefaces
It talks about Euler _only_ and how Zapf first time designed using
program (with Knuths help) while designing Euler for AMS. There is no
mention of CM. Since Euler was designed much after CM, and Zapf himself
says that was first time he used Metafont (or any other font design
program), what's the only logical conclusion?
I just checked the Preface to "The METAFONTbook" and Knuth himself says
there:
\MF\ is a system for the design of alphabets suited to raster-based
devices that print or display text. The characters that you are
reading were all designed with \MF\!, in a completely precise way;
and they were developed rather hastily by the author of the system,
who is a rank amateur at such things. It seems clear that further
work with \MF\ has the potential of producing typefaces of real
^{beauty}. This manual has been written for people who would like to
help advance the art of mathematical type design.
Do you believe me now?
FWIW, The METAFONTbook is dedicated:
To Hermann Zapf
Whose strokes are the best
Best regards,
--
Zvezdan Petkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.cs.wm.edu/~zvezdan/
