Re: First Sentence in Piktok

Gary Shannon wrote:
> --- Christophe Grandsire
> <christophe.grandsire@...> wrote:
>
>>En réponse à Gary Shannon :
>>
>>
>>
>>>As a computer programmer I am seriously thinking
>>
>>about
>>
>>>writing a program to do the drawing for me.  I
>>
>>would
>>
>>>specify the pen shape and the pen path and let the
>>>program draw the smoothed bitmap.
>>
>>As already indicated, you should look into METAFONT.
>>You may find it a
>>little overkill, but if you want to make a font out
>>of your shapes it's
>>actually the easiest tool there is,
>
> <snip>
>
> I'll take another look.  I doubt I'll make a font out
> of my glyphs since there are likely to be thousands of
> them by the time I'm done, and fonts are strictly
> limited to the number of characters they may contain,
> and each charatcer must be assigned to a particular
> key stroke.
AIUI, METAFONT allows you to create characters that correspond to TeX
macros. Basically an unlimited repertoire, and no need for a fancy input
method, although your font's use would be limited to formats that can be
typeset by TeX (i.e. not plain text).