Re: METAFONT: Calligraphic font

On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 12:17 PM Laurence Finston <[email protected]>
wrote:

> It seems to me that people interested in MF would most likely be found on
> this mailing list, as opposed to, say, comp.text.tex, so I'm posting this
> here.  I hope that's alright.
>
> For a prospective TUGboat article I dug out my first project in MF/MP from
> the 90's.  It's a calligraphic font based on an Old Icelandic manuscript,
> namely Holm perg 11 4°:  https://onp.ku.dk/onp/onp.php?i1717163
> It was intended to imitate the forms of the glyphs in the manuscript as
> closely as possible, not to create an attractive calligraphic font.
>
> I've uploaded the sources to a GitHub repository, in case anyone feels
> like having a look:
> https://github.com/lfinston/Mariu
> [email protected]:lfinston/Mariu.git
>
> I plan on looking up the criteria for CTAN projects and will make a
> package out of these materials and upload it, if appropriate.
>
> I've attached two PDF files to this message:  mariu_drawings.pdf, which
> contains my drawings at their original size (DIN A4, 210 X 297mm), and
> mariu_test.pdf, which includes an example of the MF font.
>
> The tricky part was working around a limitation of MF:  As everyone here
> probably knows, MF allows for penstrokes that simulate a pen that can
> change the angle and/or the width during a stroke, but the edges can't
> cross, on the one hand, or for pens of fixed width and angle that can be
> used for paths that do cross, on the other.  However, the pens used for
> calligraphic scripts like this one require pens of fixed width and variable
> angle and paths often cross.  The crossing points were the most difficult
> part to program.  In addition, MF's idea of a "pleasing curve" is very
> different from the requirements of this font, so that I made a great deal
> of use of "tension" in the paths.
>
> Laurence
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Thank you very much !
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