Re: Five glyphs: a minor PostScript challenge

[John Gardner]

>
> Does anyone have enough PostScript wizardry to achieve any of this?


I do. I'm quite <https://github.com/Alhadis/Stupid-Post-Tricks> fluent
<https://github.com/Alhadis/Inspect.ps> in PostScript programming, and your
suspicions about the dynamic glyph generation are correct.

I'll have a more serious look into this tomorrow when I'm not about to
collapse under my insomnia.

On Tue, 15 Mar 2022 at 23:29, Damian McGuckin <damianm@esi.com.au> wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Mar 2022, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
>
> > A. \[-+]: The minus-plus.  We should be able to dynamically generate
> >   this from \[+-] by reflecting the latter about a horizontal axis.  If
> >   the glyph is flipped within its bounding box, I guess the result
> >   would need to be vertically shifted to align it on the baseline.
>
> This needs a lot of work but might get you started.
>
>         \s+1\fB+\h'-0.55m'\v'-0.30v'\-\v'+0.30v'\fP\s-1
>
> > Does anyone have enough PostScript wizardry to achieve any of this?
>
> What I had has long disappeared from my brain. It is 20 years ago.
>
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