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- .name
- MetaFont
- .author
- Donald E Knuth
- Andreas Scherer
- .version
- 2.71
- .description
- MetaFont is the name of a computer font generation system invented by Prof.
- Donald E. Knuth of Stanford University. It reads text files prepared with
- `programs' that specify the outline of characters in fonts of type,
- graphical symbols, or other elements for printing high quality documents.
- Typesetting systems like 'TeX' make use of the font metric information
- produced by MetaFont and printer drivers or screen previewers make use of
- the pixel information as to where to put the `ink.' The usage of the
- associated programs is described to some detail, but no introduction to the
- MetaFont language itself is given.
- .described-by
- Automatically generated from Contents file by c2pi program.
- .short
- A computer font generation system.
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