[metapost] description of glyph operator for MetaPost v1.200

Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com
Wed May 6 20:11:18 CEST 2009


On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 15:32, Stephan Hennig wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the next MetaPost v1.200 (scheduled for around 8. May) provides a new
> primitive glyph, that returns the strokes of a font glyph in a picture.
>  Since this release will be part of TeX Live 2009, and hence more
> visible than other releases, I'd like to make sure the documentation of
> the new primitive is sufficiently clear for ordinary users to
> understand.  You can find a preview of the corresponding section at
>
> <URL:http://home.arcor.de/stephanhennig/Downloads/metapost/mpman-glyph.pdf>
>
> Your comments are appreciated!  Otherwise, this will be the section for
> mpman.

Taco has some really nice examples in his presentation for BachoTeX.
Maybe the manual could borrow an image or two from his slides :)

Mojca


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