Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!hplabs!hpl-opus!hpccc!hp-sde!hpfcdc!hpislx!hpmtlx!kwb From: kwb@hpmtlx.HP.COM (Keith Blackwell) Newsgroups: comp.fonts Subject: Re: TeX fonts by FTP Message-ID: <4060001@hpmtlx.HP.COM> Date: 29 Apr 88 16:23:12 GMT References: <10704@sunybcs.UUCP> Organization: HP Manufacturing Test Division - Loveland, CO Lines: 10 I have heard (read) somewhere of someone developing a system to produce caligraphic text by making ``human-like'' variations in the letter formations. Without that, anything you produce comes out looking too mechanical. Seems like the only way to do it in TeX is to have some extra mapping of normal source letters onto several varying fonts, each giving slight variations. It would be best to chose variations according to context (like glorified ligatures), and to have *lots* of variations. That's probably the only thing that would give suitable results. I haven't heard of anything like that for TeX! Keith Blackwell (hplabs!hpmtlkb!kwb)