Re: [NTG-context] pk-directory

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 11:43:58AM +0100, luigi scarso wrote:

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may we can be package them in an otf format

 Right, OpenType can embed bitmap fonts (even TrueType could, if I'm not mistaken);

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: true

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if the font is only available as PK, it should be possible to make it into an OpenType font, using FontForge, for example. I'm not sure maybe with mftrace http://lilypond.org/mftrace/

I would imagine one day luatex being able to read metafont fonts's, pass them through mplib to generate splines then through fontloader to build OpenType fonts out of it, so one can still use metafonts metaness with the complex layout feature of opentype and it vector fonts. But given how few metafont fonts is (and only one family is really a "meta" font), the effort seems not so worthy. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer