Re: An important article about computer typography

> From: Nicholas Bodley [mailto:nbodley@...]

> > Yeah, sadly. TeXs Metafont does adjust the outline points for low
> > resolutions. And it does so for high resolutions, too. But

TrueType

> > and PostScript do not. Metafont is quite professionally designed.

It's

> > not mentioned that that article, although it exists for a long time

now.

>
> Although MS's Typography articles seem much less self-serving than

other

> MS articles, perhaps Metafont was considered not worth their

attention.

Metafont fonts are used only with one application, TeX, and TeX is niche
product. The outline font formats that the type industry deals with most
of the time are Postscript or Truetype, and certainly the vast majority
of computer users ever only see fonts of one of these two formats. So,
the article in question dealt with the two outline font formats that are
of primary interest to the intended audience.



Peter Constable