Rejoice, fontmakers! (was: Re: fonts (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues))

En réponse à Stone Gordonssen :


>I was asked recently to guess how many conlangers and auxlangers develop
>their own fonts re: a possibility of WORD being made more friendly thereto.
>
>I said about one third. Yes? No?
Well, if there were more font-making tools and cheaper ones, I'd guess many
more :)) .

I enjoy this, as it is pretty much the right topic, to present the list
with a new website, officially opened today: The METAFONT and TeX/LaTeX
Resource Pape, at http://metafont.latex.free.fr!

This site is the official website of the LaTeX-for-Conlangers mailing list
which I created, and whose main job is to bring together conlangers (and
also non-conlangers) who wish to use the powerful and flexible (La)TeX and
METAFONT to produce documents in their languages and create fonts for their
scripts. Of course, the main job is to provide help for METAFONT, which has
until now been left pretty much alone, and there is little information
about it online (or even on dead trees :)) ).

The website is right now pretty much empty. But it contains the METAFONT
Tutorial Page, at http://metafont.tutorial.free.fr, which right now
contains only the METAFONTtutorial, my attempt at creating a true tutorial
for METAFONT (something desperately lacking until now). On that page, you
can access the tutorial in PDF or HTML version. Right now, only the Lesson
0 is available, but the next ones will follow shortly (I hope).

Of course, comments, praises, donations, etc... ;)))))) are welcome ;))) .

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.