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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: <233@wjh12.harvard.edu>
Date: 18 Jun 88 00:22:17 GMT
References: <4506@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: dow@wjh12.UUCP (Dominik Wujastyk)
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge MA
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In article <4506@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>In article <230@wjh12.harvard.edu> dow@wjh12.UUCP (Dominik Wujastyk) writes:
>>In article <911@entropy.ms.washington.edu> mcglk@scott.ms.washington.edu (Ken McGlothlen) writes:
>>>
>>>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.  
>
>Please go on.

I have just flipped through the article, thinking about doing a precis of
it for this news group.  But it has diagrams, is fairly detailed and hard
to summarise, and, hang it all, the whole book of proceedings only costs $15. 
You can order it from the 	TeX Users Group,
				P.O.Box 9506,
				Providence, RI, 02940, USA.
				Phone: (401) 751 7760
TUG will even accept credit card orders on the phone, so it's really easy.
And then you have the real thing.  The same volume also has papers on TeX
and typesetting Greek, Japanese and Turkish, with attention to the fonts
needed for each.


Dominik Wujastyk

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