Diferencia entre revisiones de «METAFONT»

'''METAFONT''' es un [[lenguaje de programación]] usado para definir [[fuente vectorial|fuentes vectoriales]]. Es también el nombre de un [[intérprete (software)|intérprete]] que ejecuta código METAFONT, convirtiendo las fuentes vectoriales en fuentes de mapas de bitsque pueden ser incluídas en documentos [[PostScript]].

 

 

Unlike more common outline font formats (such as [[TrueType]] or [[PostScript#Font handling|PostScript Type 1]]), a METAFONT font is primarily made up of strokes with finite-width "pens", along with filled regions. Thus, rather than describing the outline of the glyph directly, a METAFONT file describes the pen paths. Some simpler METAFONT fonts, such as the calligraphic mathematics fonts in the [[Computer Modern]] family, use a single pen stroke with a relatively large pen to define each visual "stroke" of the glyphs. More complex fonts such as the [[Roman type|Roman]] text fonts in the Computer Modern family use a small pen to trace around the outline of the visual "strokes", which are then filled; the result is much like an outline font, but with slightly softened corners defined by the pen shape.