Re: Gentle intro to MetaFont?

Article View: comp.text.tex

Article #694

#694

From: Timothy Murphy
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 23:50

23 lines
1049 bytes

tdunbar@vttcf.cc.vt.edu (Thomas Dunbar) writes:

>are there any intros to MetaFont? i'd like something wrt MetaFont
>like "A Gentle Introduction to TeX" : The TeXbook.

The trouble is, there are two entirely non-overlapping
classes of Metafonter.

First, there are the people who actually write Metafont code.
These are all incredibly intelligent,
and live mainly in caves in New Zealand.

Then there are the rest of us,
who just take what these people provide,
to create fonts 'on the fly'.

Which class are you aiming to join?

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

Technical Details

Message-ID: <1992Aug3.235051.18637@maths.tcd.ie>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!ieunet!tcdcs!maths.tcd.ie!tim

References: <5304@vtserf.cc.vt.edu>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!ieunet!tcdcs!maths.tcd.ie!tim
From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Gentle intro to MetaFont?
Message-ID: <1992Aug3.235051.18637@maths.tcd.ie>
Date: 3 Aug 92 23:50:51 GMT
References: <5304@vtserf.cc.vt.edu>
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Lines: 23

Reply to Parent Message