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That's what Metafont was supposed to be, too. See, for example, http://www.antonvasetenkov.com/metafont-demo http://www.antonvasetenkov.com/metafont-demo . But
by rspeer 10y ago
That's what Metafont was supposed to be, too. See, for example, http://www.antonvasetenkov.com/metafont-demo http://www.antonvasetenkov.com/metafont-demo .
But it seems that it ended up being used for a much more narrow purpose in the actual TeX stack that people use.
- taeric 10y agoI took it as basically nobody else used METAFONT. I hate the conservative, everything is old and has been done view; however, it is easy to look at some of the original large projects that people chose to ignore and be amazed at what they were already doing. It isn't in XML, but METAPOST/METAFONT are two really really cool projects.
- pgtan 10y ago> I took it as basically nobody else used METAFONT. yeah, well, same true for Multiple Master fonts. It ended up that Adobe gave the font metrics to the TeX[0] community. The complexity of the fonts was obviously too much for the "graphic designer". 0 https://www.lcdf.org/type/mm-metrics-1.2.tar.gz https://www.lcdf.org/type/mm-metrics-1.2.tar.gz
- taeric 10y agoWhat are the odds that this time, things will take off? :)
- __jal 10y agoAh, thanks for the info. I had no idea. My first year of college was the first year my school shifted most departments' document recommendations to MS Word from TeX, so I never really used it for authoring. Spending a day playing trying to make something useful with it has been on my someday-list for... a depressingly long time.