• Metafont is a description language used to define raster fonts. It is also the name of the interpreter that executes Metafont code, generating the bitmap...
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    by the typesetting program TeX. It was created by Donald Knuth with his Metafont program, and was most recently updated in 1992. Computer Modern, or variants...
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  • TeX (section Metafont)
    same results on all computers, at any point in time (together with the Metafont language for font description and the Computer Modern family of typefaces)...
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    Metafont Euler digitization project as his M.S. thesis in 1985. The AMS Euler typeface is named after Leonhard Euler. First implemented in METAFONT,...
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    Knuth is the creator of the TeX computer typesetting system, the related METAFONT font definition language and rendering system, and the Computer Modern...
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  • Metafont language and interpreter. MetaPost produces vector graphic diagrams from a geometric/algebraic description. The language shares Metafont's declarative...
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  • set of books by Donald Knuth published in 1986 describing the TeX and Metafont systems for digital typography. Knuth's computers and typesetting project...
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    mftrace to convert the Metafont definitions to TrueType format in 2006. In 2011 he released a new version created by rewriting the Metafont definitions to work...
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    computer scientist Donald Knuth let the version numbers of his program Metafont approach e. The versions are 2, 2.7, 2.71, 2.718, and so forth. In another...
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    Concrete Roman is a slab serif typeface designed by Donald Knuth using his METAFONT program. It was intended to accompany the Euler mathematical font which...
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  • either the TrueType or CFF format together with a wide range of metadata. Metafont uses a different sort of glyph description. Like TrueType, it is a vector...
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    Bézier contours is of practical importance in converting fonts defined in Metafont, which require stroking of Bézier curves, to the more widely used PostScript...
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  • JSTOR 2689499. Knuth, Donald (3 October 1990). "The Future of TeX and Metafont" (PDF). TeX Mag. 5 (1): 145. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 April...
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  • language agnostic. The most significant programs written in Web are TeX and Metafont. Modern TeX distributions use another program Web2C to convert Web source...
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    vector graphics and computer font systems like PostScript, Asymptote, Metafont, OpenType, and SVG use composite Bézier curves composed of cubic Bézier...
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  • working on Plan 10 from Outer Space.: 32–33  Kenneth R. Beesley created a Metafont (and thus, LaTeX-compatible) font called desalph in 2002.: 37–38  All computers...
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  • InfoWorld. p. 29. Retrieved 29 January 2015. Beebe, Nelson H. F. (2003). "25 Years of TEX and METAFONT: Looking Back and Looking Forward" (PDF). TUGboat: 10....
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    2024 Repository gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond.git Written in C++, Scheme, Metafont, PostScript, Python Operating system Windows 2000 and later Mac OS X 10...
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  • retrieved April 21, 2013. Beebe, Nelson H. F. (2003), "25 Years of TEX and METAFONT: Looking Back and Looking Forward" (PDF), TUGboat, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 7–30...
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  • version number of Metafont asymptotically approaches Euler's number, e. As of February 2021, the version number is 2.71828182. Metafont was also devised...
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    2012-02-22. Retrieved 2012-02-10. Soyombo script – Omniglot Soyombo fonts (TeX/Metafont) Soyombo fonts (TTF) Соёмбын нууц ба синергетик. Эмхэтгэсэн Б. Болдсайхан...
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    are based on Samyak fonts. The Ethiopic range is based on the Ethiopic metafont project at the University of Hamburg. In the latest release of 2012-05-03...
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  • major/minor version numbers of Pugs converge to 2π (being reminiscent of TeX and Metafont, which use a similar scheme); each significant digit in the minor version...
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    typesetting system has a public domain Constant Strokewidth OCR-B font in METAFONT definition form. It was created by Norbert Swartz in 1995 and updated in...
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    Hewlett-Packard plotters), Vector graphics formats: EPS, SVG, PIC, CGM, Metafont, MetaPost, EMF, Tk LaTeX files: PGF/TikZ, PStricks Free and open-source...
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  • bibtex BibTeX files doc user documentation fonts font-related files metafont METAFONT files metapost MetaPost files scripts platform-independent executables...
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    algorithmic description of fonts was made by Donald Knuth in his 1986 Metafont description language and interpreter. The TrueType font format introduced...
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    [C]reating a font actually needs a domain-specific language, like Knuth's METAFONT language. With PatEL's macro system I can easily turn PatEL into a DSL...
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    ISBN 0-596-10242-9, pp. 500–501 Karel Píška, Creating Type 1 Fonts from METAFONT Sources: Comparison of Tools, Techniques and Results in TeX, XML, and digital...
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    offered $2.00. The reward for coding errors found in Knuth's TeX and Metafont programs (as distinguished from errors in Knuth's books) followed an audacious...
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