Re: LaTeX / Metafont was Re: Arabic transliteration

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.

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