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Re: First Sentence in Piktok

From:Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>
Date:Sunday, December 7, 2003, 23:53
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).