Calling all typographers

Rod Smallwood rodsmallwood52 at btinternet.com
Thu Apr 28 10:46:57 CDT 2016



On 28/04/2016 16:32, Jon Elson wrote:
> On 04/28/2016 07:19 AM, Rod Smallwood wrote:
>>
>> I'd like to recover the DEC fonts and have looked at several font 
>> creator/editors.
>>
>> Frankly they are dung.  Every fancy curve there is but not a straight 
>> forward line and circle method of  creating lower case characters
>>
>> as DEC did it.  I do need the ability to enter (or import)  the lower 
>> case characters using just circles and lines.
>>
>>
>> Suggestions please
>>
> Have you tried MetaFont?  I've never actually created a font with it, 
> just used it automatically within the TeX environment.  But, there is 
> a human-readable language that defines the characters.
>
> Jon
I haven't where would I find it?

Rod



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