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From: dow@wjh12.harvard.edu (Dominik Wujastyk)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: METAFONT -> PostScript
Keywords: PostScript, METAFONT, TeX, programming
Message-ID: <230@wjh12.harvard.edu>
Date: 15 Jun 88 14:21:07 GMT
References: <911@entropy.ms.washington.edu>
Reply-To: dow@wjh12.UUCP (Dominik Wujastyk)
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge MA
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In article <911@entropy.ms.washington.edu> mcglk@scott.ms.washington.edu (Ken McGlothlen) writes:
>I've been bouncing around an idea for some time, and it seems time to get
>some opinions from a lot of people who've been at this longer than I have.
>
>What I'd like to do is write a program to convert METAFONT source programs
>into PostScript.
>

A program to do this has already been done, by Leslie Carr of Southampton
University (UK).  He has written up what he did as "Of Metafont and
PostScript", in _TeX Users Group Eighth Annual Meeting: Conference
Proceedings_, (Providence: AMS, 1988).  This is number 5 in the TUG
TeXniques series.  

Leslie worked by converting not the GF file, but the LOG file! (Verbose
version.)  It really is very interesting, and amazing how well it worked.

Dominik Wujastyk

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