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From: FLEGLEI@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Adobe's new Multiple Master (?) Fonts
Message-ID: <91094.224853FLEGLEI@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu>
Date: 5 Apr 91 03:48:53 GMT
References: <7266@ecs.soton.ac.uk> <1991Mar26.162927.15819@visix.com>
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Multiple Master is, as the previous poster noted, completely unlike MetaFont.
Each font will contain the light, black, condensed, and expanded outlines.
Fonts may be run up and down the scale created for Univers (see any type book
with Univers in it that has the diagram explaining the numbering system) with
virtually no limit for how fine a step between one font and the next in any
direction. Of course, your output device will give you a de facto discrete
step from size to size, weight to weight, degree of expansion, etc. Adobe
ain't out-Knuthing Metafont, which remains bizarre & useless for any
typographic purpose outside of generating computer manuals, it seems. I'm very
interested in MM for a reason cited in one of the articles I read on it (NY
Times Mar. 19 Business). Take any text and translate it into two other
languages. Doesn't quite fit the same space. Monkey with MM for a moment &
voila, same depth but virtually imperceptible. Current technology's HORIZONTAL
SCALING is a nightmare; this will actually work.