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From: larry@csccat.UUCP (Larry Spence)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Scalable weight fonts
Message-ID: <3806@csccat.UUCP>
Date: 2 Aug 90 21:19:12 GMT
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Reply-To: larry@csccat.UUCP (Larry Spence)
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In article <357@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> ifarqhar@mqccsunc.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Ian Farquhar) writes:
>Is anyone aware of any research into scaling the weight (not the size)
>of a font?  This is an interesting area, and one which - if it were
>able to be efficiently implemented - would add great utility to any
>PDL or program.

In addition to the obvious example (Knuth's Metafont), there is a PC font
generator called Parafont that does some sort of non-linear scaling.  I
don't have a reference handy, but they run ads in the usual desktop 
publishing magazines (in the US, mags like Publish, Personal Publishing,
etc.)

Addison-Wesley publishes an entire set of books on TeX and Metafont, authored
by Knuth.  There are at least two on Metafont.  One is more of a "user's
guide," the other contains full source code and thorough documentation.

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