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Re: LaTeX / Metafont was Re: Arabic transliteration

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Sunday, November 17, 2002, 15:55
En réponse à Peter Clark <peter-clark@...>:

> > So now we learn that the French are not only omnipresent, but > omniscient as > well! :) >
Of course! :))
> > My point exactly. I've played with some low-level TeX, but > wouldn't want to > do so on a regular basis.
Me neither. But that's only because other people have done the hard job already :)) . Higher-level abstractions, while less
> powerful, > allow for quicker design and prototyping. Lower-level work should be > left > only for custom tweaks.
Agreed. Which, in fact, is why I like to use LyX as my
> main > interface for LaTeX-
LyX? Ew!
> And I have heard rumors of macros for Metafont (is it > Metapost?), but haven't > looked into it much.
Metapost is not really a set of macros for Metafont. It's a Metafont-based language used to produce Postcript images. Since it has to comply with the Postcript standard, it's less powerful than Metafont. Also, it's normally not used to make fonts (some people have tried to use it to make Type 1 fonts, but it's not perfect yet). Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.