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[tex...] translator from METAFONT to PostScript available

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From: Daniel Berry
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 1990 05:28
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Archive-name: tex/metafont/mf2ps/1990-12-11
Archive: shemp.cs.ucla.edu:/pub/mf2ps.shar.Z [131.179.128.34]
Original-posting-by: dberry@sei.cmu.edu (Daniel Berry)
Original-subject: translator from METAFONT to PostScript available
Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti)

mf2ps is now available for anonymous ftp

This is the program described in the paper 
S. Yanai, D.M. Berry, "Environment for Translating METAFONT to PostScript",
_TUGboat_ 11:4, 525-541, 1990

mf2ps was obtained by splitting the METAFONT program into a front-end and a
back-end at precisely the point that the envelope of a character is
determined. This envelope is then output as a PostScript outline program.

It is available in compressed shar format for anonymous ftp from

shemp.cs.ucla.edu (131.179.128.34)
in file pub/mf2ps.shar.Z

Thus uncompressing it yields something to be executed by sh.

Enjoy
Dan
-- 
Prof. Daniel M. Berry, Computer Science Department, Technion, Haifa 32000 ISRAEL
+972-4-294325, DBERRY@TECHSEL.bitnet dberry@cs.technion.ac.il
Dr. Daniel M. Berry, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon Institute
Pittsburgh, PA 15213, +1-412-268-7778 dberry@sei.cmu.edu FAX:+1-412-268-5758
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