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Ah yes, but...Ah yes, but...Posted Oct 20, 2006 23:54 UTC (Fri) by jwb (subscriber, #15467)In reply to: Ah yes, but... by jd Parent article: Thousands of TeX fonts at your fingertips (Linux.com)
Most of what you say is true, but MF is, as far as I can tell, incapable of dealing with a low-resolution device such as your monitor. Other font systems are specifically designed to cope with 75dpi. MF looks wonderful in 2400lpi offset lithography, or 600dpi laser scanning. There's a major difference.
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Ah yes, but... Posted Oct 23, 2006 10:47 UTC (Mon) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link] I think you're confusing Metafont with Computer Modern (Knuth's exemplaryfont family, implemented in Metafont). Metafont does contain features that allow a font designer to cater for low-resolution devices (it is all in the documentation). However, a font like Computer Modern Roman, by design, only looks good at very high resolutions. Even 600dpi does not remotely do it justice -- compare a CMR laser printout to, say, the TeXbook.
Anselm
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