Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote: >>> But this does massivly restrict metafonts capabilities. Pens for >>> example are not allowed (Metafont with applied handbrake)! >> I agree, metatype1 is not very easy to use if you are familiar >> with >> metafont already. For existing fonts, mf2pt1 is in general the >> best >> approach, I think. There is a (patched?) version out there that >> delegates most the hard work to fontforge, and it's results are >> normally >> quite acceptable. > > There was once (1990) an article in TUGboat 11:4, pages 525-541 > which discribes an patch to mf84. The patched mf could produce type3 > fonts. Should'nt it be possible to do the same for type1?
Not without a lot of effort. Type3 fonts allow all sorts of stuff that is illegal in Type1, like overlapping and mixing of strokes and fills. Best wishes, Taco ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
