Comments on: METATYPE1 and meta-fonts http://existentialtype.net/2009/04/17/metatype1-and-meta-fonts/ For People Who Like Type and Types Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:41:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: washburn http://existentialtype.net/2009/04/17/metatype1-and-meta-fonts/comment-page-1/#comment-31738 washburn Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:04:33 +0000 http://existentialtype.net/?p=299#comment-31738 @Till: I do not think your information is correct. From the information I've found, Antykwa Toruńska may have been created using METATYPE1, but that does not make it a meta-font in the same sense as Computer Modern. I do not think the work on the Tex Gyre project involves METATYPE1 at all. If you have more details that prove me wrong on these points I would be greatly interested. Also, that section in Yannis's book is full of errors. I cannot be sure because I have not tried older versions of METATYPE1, but the code he presents definitely does not work in the latest version and I am very doubtful it could have ever worked. I would have submitted this to errata for the book, but they haven't even "verified" a simpler mistake in the book that I submitted last year. In terms of creating an OpenType font from a Type 1 font, I expect you can automated some of the process using FontForge's scripting capabilities. @Till: I do not think your information is correct. From the information I’ve found, Antykwa Toruńska may have been created using METATYPE1, but that does not make it a meta-font in the same sense as Computer Modern. I do not think the work on the Tex Gyre project involves METATYPE1 at all. If you have more details that prove me wrong on these points I would be greatly interested.

Also, that section in Yannis’s book is full of errors. I cannot be sure because I have not tried older versions of METATYPE1, but the code he presents definitely does not work in the latest version and I am very doubtful it could have ever worked. I would have submitted this to errata for the book, but they haven’t even “verified” a simpler mistake in the book that I submitted last year.

In terms of creating an OpenType font from a Type 1 font, I expect you can automated some of the process using FontForge’s scripting capabilities.

]]> By: Till http://existentialtype.net/2009/04/17/metatype1-and-meta-fonts/comment-page-1/#comment-31737 Till Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:55:21 +0000 http://existentialtype.net/?p=299#comment-31737 Hi, I hope this information is not doubled. There are some meta families, one of them being Antykwa Poltawskiego (I think this was the first one and the one the tool was developed for). There has been recently much work on the TexGyre project who recreate and enrich the traditional post script fonts that come with gs to work as OT fonts. This might be worth studying. Another hint: Yannis Haralambous shows in the appendix of his book Fonts & encodings an interesting example how to design a letter with metafont and metatype1. I was investigating the stuff also but didn't yet get so far doing some actual work. What bothers me is an easy way how to make a bit OT font out of the type1 fonts - that is with all needed tables for ligatures, language features and so on. Do you have any idea about that? Hi, I hope this information is not doubled. There are some meta families, one of them being Antykwa Poltawskiego (I think this was the first one and the one the tool was developed for). There has been recently much work on the TexGyre project who recreate and enrich the traditional post script fonts that come with gs to work as OT fonts. This might be worth studying. Another hint: Yannis Haralambous shows in the appendix of his book Fonts & encodings an interesting example how to design a letter with metafont and metatype1.

I was investigating the stuff also but didn’t yet get so far doing some actual work. What bothers me is an easy way how to make a bit OT font out of the type1 fonts – that is with all needed tables for ligatures, language features and so on. Do you have any idea about that?

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