METAFONT

METAFONT is a historical application created in 1977. 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 fonts that can be embedded into e.g. PostScript. Read more on Wikipedia...

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• METAFONT first appeared in 1977
• See also: postscript, tex, asymptote
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Example code from Wikipedia:

\documentclass{article}

\newfont{\letterbeta}{beta}
\newcommand{\otherbeta}{{\letterbeta B}}

\begin{document}
Let’s try having a strange \otherbeta\ here.
\end{document}

Last updated August 22nd, 2019