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Re: Mensural c clef - metafont design/philosophy question
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Mensural c clef - metafont design/philosophy question |
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Wed, 19 Sep 2012 22:54:19 +0200 |
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"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:
> I'm playing with metafont to redesign the mensural c clef and see that
> most of the clefs are drawn by creating a pattern of the desired shape
> and then filling it. An alternative would be to select a pen and draw
> the shape by connecting the vertices. Is there any objection about
> using this as a method, or is it just an alternative that's perfectly
> OK?
I think that METAPOST does not really do pens a lot, and I don't know
whether the exact conversion process to fonts involves METAPOST rather
than METAFONT.
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David Kastrup