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Abstract: The MetaPost system implements a language very much like METAFONT except that the output is expressed with cubic splines and PostScript commands rather than in METAFONT 's raster-oriented Generic Font Format. It is a powerful language for expressing figures for documents printed on PostScript printers, and it can also be used for creating PostScript fonts. The data types are mostly the same as in METAFONT, except that pictures represent a continuous version of what is scan-converted in order to ... (Update)
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J. D. Hobby, A MetaFont-like system with PostScript output, Tugboat, the T E X User's Group Newsletter, 10 (1989), pp. 505--512. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/hobby89metafontlike.html More
@article{ hobby89metafontlike,
author = "John D. Hobby",
title = "A {METAFONT}-like System with PostScript Output",
journal = "{TUG}boat",
volume = "10",
number = "2",
pages = "505--512",
year = "1989",
url = "citeseer.ist.psu.edu/hobby89metafontlike.html" }
Citations (may not include all citations):200 PostScript Language Reference Manual (context) - Incorporated - 1986
36 Computers and Typesetting (context) - Donald, METAFONT et al. - 1986
19 PIC---A Language for Typesetting Graphics (context) - Brian - 1982
11 PIC---A Graphics Language for Typesetting (context) - Brian - 1984
6 Environment for Translating METAFONT to PostScript - Shimon - 1989
4 Of METAFONT and PostScript (context) - Leslie - 1988
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