22 Nov
2009
22 Nov
'09
3:53 p.m.
Hi Mojca,
Also, is there a way to directly get the glyph outlines of, say, $\bigotimes$ in MetaPost code and use it to derive some length unit from it?
Yes, but this only works for Type1 fonts, not for OpenType.
The example below is a literal copy from metapost manual (created by Taco).
This is quite impressive! This will make it much easier for me to obtain the right dimensions… Now if only this worked with OpenType as well (or any other font format ConTeXt understands natively)… and it would be really great if direct access to outlines extended to arbitrary typeset material beyond single glyphs. I know there used to be a TeX -> PS -> pstoedit -> MetaPost workflow. Does this still work with MkIV? Oliver