28 Apr
2016
28 Apr
'16
8:42 a.m.
On Thu, 4/28/16, Rod Smallwood <rodsmallwood52 at btinternet.com> wrote:
Every fancy curve there is but not a straight
forward line and circle method of? creating lower case
characters
I'm not sure if you count it as straightforward, but I'd
suggest METAFONT. Straight lines are certainly straightforward.
Circles are a little more fun, but once you get the hang
of the math, most any curve is pretty easy to create.
BLS
28 Apr
28 Apr
8:50 a.m.
On 28/04/2016 16:42, Brian L. Stuart wrote:
On Thu, 4/28/16, Rod Smallwood <rodsmallwood52 at
btinternet.com> wrote:
Well that's two votes for metafont so far.
Rod
Every fancy curve there is but not a straight
forward line and circle method of creating lower case
characters
I'm not sure if you count it as straightforward, but I'd
suggest METAFONT. Straight lines are certainly straightforward.
Circles are a little more fun, but once you get the hang
of the math, most any curve is pretty easy to create.
BLS 
9:05 a.m.
On Apr 28, 2016, at 11:42 AM, Brian L. Stuart
<blstuart at bellsouth.net> wrote:
On Thu, 4/28/16, Rod Smallwood <rodsmallwood52 at btinternet.com> wrote:
Metafont has a fatal defect: it only generates bitmap fonts. Those have been obsolete for
decades (except, occasionally, on display devices).
paul
Every fancy curve there is but not a straight
forward line and circle method of creating lower case
characters
I'm not sure if you count it as straightforward, but I'd
suggest METAFONT. Straight lines are certainly straightforward.
Circles are a little more fun, but once you get the hang
of the math, most any curve is pretty easy to create. 
10:12 a.m.
On 04/28/2016 11:05 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
Well, Metafont itself, is designed for this purpose. But, there are some other programs
that can convert the font definition to vector form, for use with scalable PostScript and
PDF formats, for example. One of them is Metapost, which is a derivative of Metafont.
Google pulls up a vast number of articles on metafont to
vector, for instance.
Jon
On Apr 28,
2016, at 11:42 AM, Brian L. Stuart <blstuart at bellsouth.net> wrote:
On Thu, 4/28/16, Rod Smallwood <rodsmallwood52 at btinternet.com> wrote:
Metafont has a fatal defect:
it only generates bitmap fonts. Those have been obsolete for decades (except,
occasionally, on display devices).
Every fancy curve there is but not a straight
forward line and circle method of creating lower case
characters
I'm not sure if you count it as straightforward, but I'd
suggest METAFONT. Straight lines are certainly straightforward.
Circles are a little more fun, but once you get the hang
of the math, most any curve is pretty easy to create.
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