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Ah yes, but...
Ah yes, but...
Posted Oct 20, 2006 21:24 UTC (Fri) by hanwen (subscriber, #4329)In reply to: Ah yes, but... by jd
Parent article: Thousands of TeX fonts at your fingertips (Linux.com)
FWIW, LilyPond also uses MetaFont and is (by now) fully decoupled from TeX.
It's a debatable whether MF is a good environment for designing fonts, though. Font design is largely visual, while parametric description of curves requires some mathematical cluefulness. The combination seems very rare in font designers. I think the TeX CM series (largely written by Knuth himself) is the only real font where each and every parameter is tunable.
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