Re: A Pictographic system that makes fonts obsolete

--- 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
<snip>

>
> 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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