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Metafont

Known as: MF 
Metafont is a description language used to define vector fonts. It is also the name of the interpreter that executes Metafont code, generating the… 
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Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
On impact and evaluation in computational creativity: a discussion of the Turing Test and an alternative proposal
. Computational Creativity is the AI subfield in which we study how to build computational models of creative thought in science… 
1999
1999
Półtawskiego : a parameterized outline font 1 Antykwa Półtawskiego : a parameterized outline font
The question arises whether the complexity of the Computer Modern family reflects the nature of the problem (i. e., type design… 
1993
1993
An Emergent Model of the Perception and Creation of Alphabetic Style
The Letter Spirit project is an attempt to model central aspects of human high-level perception and creativity on a computer… 
1989
1989
A METAFONT-like System with Postscript Output
  • 1989
  • Corpus ID: 6861948
The MetaPost system implements a language very much like METAFONT except that the output is expressed with cubic splines and… 
Review
1987
Review
1987
Programming pearls
From the Book: PREFACE: Computer programming has many faces. Fred Brooks paints the big picture in The Mythical Man Month; his… 
1986
1986
Designing a new typeface with METAFONT
  • R. Southall
  • TEX for Scientific Documentation
  • 1986
  • Corpus ID: 43451223
This paper summarizes the conclusions reached as a consequence of two years' work on the design of an original typeface using… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Metafont: The Program
The is the fourth volume in a five-volume series on Computers and Typesetting, all authored by Donald E. Knuth. 
Review
1980
Review
1980
Review of "TEX and METAFONT, New Directions in Typesetting by Donald Knuth", Digital Press and the American Mathematical Society.
TEX and METAFONT, New Directions in Typesetting consists of three parts each of which is self-contained. First is "Mathematical… 
1980
1980
LCCD a language for Chinese character design
One of the critical problems of Chinese data processing is to make a computer produce Chinese characters as output. This paper… 
1979
1979
METAFONT: a system for alphabet design
This is the user''s manual for METAFONT, a companion to the TEX tyesetting system. The system makes it fairly easy to define high… 
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