nb@COYOTE.STANFORD.EDU (Neenie Billawala) (08/18/86)
For those in the Stanford/San Francisco Bay area: A talk on METAFONT by Neenie Billawala at 7:00 pm on Wednedsay, 20 August 86 at Stanford University in room 252 Margaret Jacks Hall(CS Building) Metafont is a computer language which was developed by Donald Knuth at Stanford University during a period from 1977-1986. The language lends itself to and is intended to be used as a tool for creating characters to be typeset with its companion language, TeX. The talk will focus on some of the potential and possibilities for using Metafont to aid in the design and creation of a family of fonts. We will look at what Metafont can do and how its capabilities can be applied to type design. The speaker has been working with Metafont for 2 years, while it was still under development and since it has been in its "fixed state" as of January '86.