kwb@hpmtlx.HP.COM (Keith Blackwell) (04/29/88)
I have heard (read) somewhere of someone developing a system to produce caligraphic text by making ``human-like'' variations in the letter formations. Without that, anything you produce comes out looking too mechanical. Seems like the only way to do it in TeX is to have some extra mapping of normal source letters onto several varying fonts, each giving slight variations. It would be best to chose variations according to context (like glorified ligatures), and to have *lots* of variations. That's probably the only thing that would give suitable results. I haven't heard of anything like that for TeX! Keith Blackwell (hplabs!hpmtlkb!kwb)
dow@wjh12.harvard.edu (Dominik Wujastyk) (05/04/88)
For those who have access to FTP, the full CM family of TeX fonts, by Don Knuth, is available at most sizes and magsteps (up and down from 300dpi) from science.utah.edu, in aps:<tex.cm>. The fonts are in PK format. Don't forget to get the TFMs at the same time (in the same directory). Since these are all binary files, be sure to type "tenex" once you are connected to science.utah.edu. Dominik -- bitnet: user DOW on the bitnet node HARVUNXW arpanet: dow@wjh12.harvard.edu csnet: dow@wjh12.harvard.edu uucp: ...!ihnp4!wjh12!dow
ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) (05/11/88)
|I have heard (read) somewhere of someone developing a system to produce |caligraphic text by making ``human-like'' variations in the letter |formations. Without that, anything you produce comes out looking too |mechanical. Seems like the only way to do it in TeX is to have some extra |mapping of normal source letters onto several varying fonts, each giving |slight variations. It would be best to chose variations according to |context (like glorified ligatures), and to have *lots* of variations. |That's probably the only thing that would give suitable results. |I haven't heard of anything like that for TeX! | Keith Blackwell (hplabs!hpmtlkb!kwb) I'm not sure what exactly you mean. If you mean introduce some variations in the letter shapes at font construction time, see the METAFONT book on adding randomness. If you mean introduce different randomness in every piece of output, then caligraphic fonts are more amenable than raster fonts to this kind of bending. Otherwise you would have to store many variations. Good application for CD ROMS? I don't know what this buys you. Junk advertising would remain junky (in content). Certainly it would break the monotony of printed output. But who needs computers? People who have tried to read my handwriting have no problems with monotony :-). Ken
lee@uhccux.UUCP (Greg Lee) (05/11/88)
From article <4060001@hpmtlx.HP.COM>, by kwb@hpmtlx.HP.COM (Keith Blackwell): " I have heard (read) somewhere of someone developing a system to produce " caligraphic text by making ``human-like'' variations in the letter " formations. ... see D. E. Knuth, Mathematical Typography, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, March '79, 337-372. Also in an old Dr. Dobb's. Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu