METAFONT
METAFONT is an 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 ranks in the top 25% of languages
- the METAFONT wikipedia page
- METAFONT first appeared in 1977
- See also: postscript, tex, asymptote
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Example code from Wikipedia:
%file name: beta.mf
%mode_setup;
% Define a beanlike shape for the character B
beginchar("B",11pt#,11pt#,0);
% Setup coordinates as an equation system
y1=y2=y3=0;
y4=y5=y6=h;
x1=x4=0;
x2=x5=w;
x3=x6=2*w;
% Define pen
pickup pencircle xscaled 0.2w yscaled 0.04w rotated 45;
% Draw the character curve
draw z1..z3..z6{z2-z6}..z5..{z4-z2}z4..cycle;
endchar;
end
Last updated June 22nd, 2020