• Metafont is a description language used to define raster fonts. It is also the name of the interpreter that executes Metafont code, generating the bitmap...
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    by the typesetting program TeX. It was created by Donald Knuth with his Metafont program, and was most recently updated in 1992. Computer Modern, or variants...
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  • TeX (section Metafont)
    same results on all computers, at any point in time (together with the Metafont language for font description and the Computer Modern family of typefaces)...
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  • Metafont language and interpreter. MetaPost produces vector graphic diagrams from a geometric/algebraic description. The language shares Metafont's declarative...
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    Knuth is the creator of the TeX computer typesetting system, the related METAFONT font definition language and rendering system, and the Computer Modern...
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    Metafont Euler digitization project as his M.S. thesis in 1985. The AMS Euler typeface is named after Leonhard Euler. First implemented in METAFONT,...
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  • set of books by Donald Knuth published in 1986 describing the TeX and Metafont systems for digital typography. Knuth's computers and typesetting project...
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    mftrace to convert the Metafont definitions to TrueType format in 2006. In 2011 he released a new version created by rewriting the Metafont definitions to work...
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    Concrete Roman is a slab serif typeface designed by Donald Knuth using his METAFONT program. It was intended to accompany the Euler mathematical font which...
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    computer scientist Donald Knuth let the version numbers of his program Metafont approach e. The versions are 2, 2.7, 2.71, 2.718, and so forth. In another...
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