On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 02:23:02PM +0200, Piotr Meyer wrote: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 11:01:51AM +0200, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 10:32:40AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote: > > > I guess noone would object a metafont2wsfont converter tool. > > > Look at the true type tool Michael mentioned in xsrc/local and do > > > something > > > similar for metafont. > > > > I have already planed to re-start with the Hershey fonts, for reasons > > explained in my initial mail and for others and this will be combined > > with TeX (kerTeX). So there will probably be something in this > > line, at the end, even if it is only for my own use. > > Sorry for late comment but I would like to suggest mlterm-fb as > - probably - easiest solution for Your case (if I understood problem > correctly, of course). mlterm running in framebuffer console is > capable to use wide range of standard X fonts[1] without hassle. > > If You want to convert fonts to wsfont You may take a look at some > additional resources. In addition to already mentioned there is also > my small tool[2], created for my own work for bitmap terminus fonts > (see [3] for gallery) - it isn't useful for converting vectors, but > may provide a hints about your own methods of mapping from UTF codes > or Adobe names to particular code pages (wide range of definitions is > provided by original terminus package, for my case I made only one, > for cp437). > > 1 - https://www.mail-archive.com/netbsd-users@netbsd.org/msg10136.html > 2 - https://github.com/aniou/bdf2wsfont > 3 - http://smutek.pl/netbsd/wsfont/terminus/ > 4 - http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/ >
Thank you for the links. When I will tackle the task I will also provide short explanations about what different pieces achieve and comparisons between solutions (for example, I guess, since this has been totally lost in the huge hay stack of TeXLive, that very few people know about virtual fonts, even less know how it works; few people can make a link between METAFONT, freetype or Cairo; few people know how DVI compares to PDF, or that one can compare METAFONT/TeX/DVI with PS, doing in three what is done in one with the full fledge PS programming language---leading after to a drop of a part of PS to keep only PDF in a wide range of cases; etc.). -- Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com> http://www.kergis.com/ http://www.sbfa.fr/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C