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Re: A Pictographic system that makes fonts obsolete

From:Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>
Date:Thursday, December 11, 2003, 22:27
--- Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@...> wrote:
> En réponse à Gary Shannon : > > > >Toying around with a different way to tell software > >how to draw a pictographic character: > > > >http://fiziwig.com/ptgylph2.html
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> > Note that this is no advertisement for METAFONT. > Rather, you could look at > how METAFONT does that, so as to get inspiration on > how to implement your > tool (basically a simpler form of METAFONT, which > could make it much > faster, fast enough for your purpose). An advantage > of taking from METAFONT > would be that your glyph files would be plain text > files, thus universal > (and the rendering engine would just be a simple > interpreter). And you > could build up an already existing syntax, > simplifying your work :) . > > Christophe Grandsire. > > http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr > > You need a straight mind to invent a twisted > conlang. >
Thanks for the ideas. I'll have a look. Is the source code for METAFONT available? I've had a look at the TrueType documentation and it seems to have a lot more power than I need for simple glyphs. It might be fun to write a word processor that works with my pictographs and uses this method of drawing the glyphs.

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Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>