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Metafont is a
description language used to
define raster fonts. It is also the name of the
interpreter that
executes Metafont code,
generating the bitmap...
- by the
typesetting program TeX. It was
created by
Donald Knuth with his
Metafont program, and was most
recently updated in 1992.
Computer Modern and its...
- same
results on all computers, at any
point in time (together with the
Metafont language for font
description and the
Computer Modern family of typefaces)...
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Knuth is the
creator of the TeX
computer typesetting system, the
related METAFONT font
definition language and
rendering system, and the
Computer Modern...
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Metafont language and interpreter.
MetaPost produces vector graphic diagrams from a geometric/algebraic description. The
language shares Metafont's declarative...
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Metafont Euler digitization project as his M.S.
thesis in 1985. The AMS
Euler typeface is
named after Leonhard Euler.
First implemented in
METAFONT,...
- set of
books by
Donald Knuth published in 1986
describing the TeX and
Metafont systems for
digital typography. Knuth's
computers and
typesetting project...
- Bézier
contours is of
practical importance in
converting fonts defined in
Metafont,
which require stroking of Bézier curves, to the more
widely used PostScript...
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version number of
Metafont asymptotically approaches Euler's number, e. As of
February 2021, the
version number is 2.71828182 (2.8).
Metafont was also devised...
- JSTOR 2689499. Knuth,
Donald (3
October 1990). "The ****ure of TeX and
Metafont" (PDF). TeX Mag. 5 (1): 145.
Archived (PDF) from the
original on 13 April...
