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Re: TeX fonts by FTP

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From: Keith Blackwell
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 1988 16:23
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I have heard (read) somewhere of someone developing a system to produce
caligraphic text by making ``human-like'' variations in the letter
formations.  Without that, anything you produce comes out looking too
mechanical.  Seems like the only way to do it in TeX is to have some extra
mapping of normal source letters onto several varying fonts, each giving
slight variations.  It would be best to chose variations according to
context (like glorified ligatures), and to have *lots* of variations.
That's probably the only thing that would give suitable results.
I haven't heard of anything like that for TeX!
					Keith Blackwell	(hplabs!hpmtlkb!kwb)
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From: kwb@hpmtlx.HP.COM (Keith Blackwell)
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Subject: Re: TeX fonts by FTP
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Date: 29 Apr 88 16:23:12 GMT
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