CTAN package update: mf2pt1

CTAN Announcements ctan-ann at dante.de
Wed Jan 16 16:53:17 CET 2008


The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org ans should soon be at 
your favorite mirror.

Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: mf2pt1
Author's name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: /support/mf2pt1
Summary description: Produce PostScript Type 1 fonts from Metafont source
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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mf2pt1 facilitates producing PostScript Type 1 fonts from a Metafont
source file.  mf2pt1's advantage over tools such as TeXtrace and
mftrace is that it does not rely on bitmap tracing and therefore can
produce higher-quality Type 1 fonts than trace-based tools.  The catch
is that mf2pt1 imposes a number of restrictions on the Metafont input
so it is not, as the name may imply, an automatic converter of
arbitrary Metafont fonts to Type 1 format.

This release substantially alters the (internal) is_clockwise macro
with the intention of making it a lot more robust.
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/mf2pt1
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/mf2pt1
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 
appear).  We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .  
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .



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