Metafont

Known as: MF

Metafont is a description language used to define vector fonts. It is also the name of the interpreter that executes Metafont code, generating the…

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2001

Taking the conference motto as a theme, this papers examines the good, the bad, and the ugly bits of TEX’s math typesetting…

2000

The supernova remnant (SNR) candidate MF 83 in M101 is coincident with a very luminous X-ray source. Based on the high X-ray…

2000

. This paper is the French translation of a german paper written by Hermann Zapf in 1953 dedicated to the Renaissance humanists…

1999

The question arises whether the complexity of the Computer Modern family reflects the nature of the problem (i. e., type design…

1998

The paper illustrates this statement by presenting a brief description of an interface for METAFONT-to-PostScript, MFTOEPS. The…

1998

The paper describes the task of making fonts for a new family of typefaces designed for telephone directory composition on laser…

1998

Despite the importance of mathematical typesetting to the persistent popularity of TEX, very few TEX math fonts are available to…

1993

SUMMARY In this paper we present a new method of parametrizing PostScript fonts in order to create font families. By changing…

1989

The MetaPost system implements a language very much like METAFONT except that the output is expressed with cubic splines and…

1986

This paper summarizes the conclusions reached as a consequence of two years' work on the design of an original typeface using…