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

Stephan Hennig mailing_list at arcor.de
Mon May 11 15:57:39 CEST 2009


laurent at math.toronto.edu schrieb:
> Stephen,
>
> It seems probable that the term "PostScript font" of
> the manual modification draft at
>
> http://home.arcor.de/stephanhennig/Downloads/metapost/mpman-glyph.pdf
>
> really means "Adobe Type 1 Font".

Thanks!  I have changed that.


> There are many other sorts of fonts known to the
> various PostScript interpreters; see the PostScript
> level 3 reference manual.  Which if any of those mentioned
> there are currently accepted by the new "glyph"
> primitive of metapost?

I think Adobe Type 1 is the only font format.  But maybe somebody else
can clarify that.

Best regards,
Stephan Hennig



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