gram@uctcs.uucp (Graham Wheeler) (11/27/90)
As my first experiment with MetaFONT, I recently typed in the PUNK MetaFONT description given by Knuth in the August 1988 issue of TUGBoat. Everything went OK except for one line in PUNK.MF, in the definition of `pd', where Knuth has: def pd ... dot_pen_path shifted zt_ withpen penspeck enddef; It's the zt_ (z subscript t_) that MF threw out. Eventually I just used `z' which compiled OK. The upshot is that the italic characters don't work properly. The dots created with pd are in the same location as for normal, while the lines are correctly slanted. The combined effect is rather strange - italic characters with dots scattered `arbitrarily' around. Has anyone entered this font and got it working? Graham Wheeler | "Don't bother me, Data Network Architectures Lab| I'm reading a `Crisis'!" Dept. of Computer Science | Internet: <gram.uctcs@f4.n494.z5.fidonet.org> University of Cape Town | BANG: <...uunet!ddsw1!olsa99!uctcs!gram>
tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) (11/30/90)
In article <904@ucthpx.UUCP> gram@uctcs.uucp (Graham Wheeler) writes:
As my first experiment with MetaFONT, I recently typed in the PUNK MetaFONT
description given by Knuth in the August 1988 issue of TUGBoat. Everything
went OK except for one line in PUNK.MF, in the definition of `pd', where
Knuth has:
def pd ...
dot_pen_path shifted zt_ withpen penspeck enddef;
In my copy of punk.mf, the line in question is:
dot_pen_path shifted z.t_ withpen penspeck enddef; % {\bf drawdot}
^ note the dot
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Tor Lillqvist,
working, but not speaking, for the Technical Research Centre of Finland