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Wolfgang let the cat in.

Embroidery cat font, implemented in MetaFun with added color support.

#TeXConTeXt #MetaPost

@frischefarbe zeigt im nächsten Mini-Vortrag eine andere Spielerei. Ihr findet sie unter https://hobby.boxesandglue.dev/ und macht Werbung für #Metapost, was tatsächlich an vielen Stellen etwas mehr Aufmerksamkeit verdient hätte.

Im #TeXConTeXt Umfeld wird es deutlich mehr genutzt, aber bei #TeXLaTeX haben gerade #TikZ & Co mehr Nutzung.

#DANTE2026

@frischefarbe zeigt im nächsten Mini-Vortrag eine andere Spielerei. Ihr findet sie unter https://hobby.boxesandglue.dev/ und macht Werbung für #Metapost, was tatsächlich an vielen Stellen etwas mehr Aufmerksamkeit verdient hätte.

Im #TeXConTeXt Umfeld wird es deutlich mehr genutzt, aber bei #TeXLaTeX haben gerade #TikZ & Co mehr Nutzung.

#DANTE2026

@frischefarbe zeigt im nächsten Mini-Vortrag eine andere Spielerei. Ihr findet sie unter https://hobby.boxesandglue.dev/ und macht Werbung für #Metapost, was tatsächlich an vielen Stellen etwas mehr Aufmerksamkeit verdient hätte.

Im #TeXConTeXt Umfeld wird es deutlich mehr genutzt, aber bei #TeXLaTeX haben gerade #TikZ & Co mehr Nutzung.

#DANTE2026

@frischefarbe zeigt im nächsten Mini-Vortrag eine andere Spielerei. Ihr findet sie unter https://hobby.boxesandglue.dev/ und macht Werbung für #Metapost, was tatsächlich an vielen Stellen etwas mehr Aufmerksamkeit verdient hätte.

Im #TeXConTeXt Umfeld wird es deutlich mehr genutzt, aber bei #TeXLaTeX haben gerade #TikZ & Co mehr Nutzung.

#DANTE2026

@frischefarbe zeigt im nächsten Mini-Vortrag eine andere Spielerei. Ihr findet sie unter https://hobby.boxesandglue.dev/ und macht Werbung für #Metapost, was tatsächlich an vielen Stellen etwas mehr Aufmerksamkeit verdient hätte.

Im #TeXConTeXt Umfeld wird es deutlich mehr genutzt, aber bei #TeXLaTeX haben gerade #TikZ & Co mehr Nutzung.

#DANTE2026

This was an excellent week for boxes and glue.

* the textshape Text shaper is now usable and passes almost all harfbuzz tests (still working on the last ones)
* mpgo - a Go MetaPost code is now pretty much feature complete (an bug free, of course)
* hobby, a Lua frontend for mpgo works fine
* glu, a boxes and glue Lua frontend is getting more and more functionality
* boxes and glue can now render SVGs in PDF and is font aware. it uses the textshape engine to render fonts in SVG.
* Merged some pull requests for textshape and boxesandglue.

https://boxesandglue.dev

#boxesandglue #PDF #SVG #MetaPost

Gavin Polhemus published a new ConTeXt module to include a globe, centered on some geo coordinates:

https://github.com/Sophias-Compass/Luageo

https://modules.contextgarden.net/luageo

There’s a manual in doc/…

With the next ConTeXt update, it will be installable with mtxrun.

#ConTeXt #MetaPost

New software in the boxes and glue universe: mpgo and hobby. mpgo is a MetaPost library (re-)written in Go and hobby is a Lua frontend which uses the library and adds a Lua layer for programming.

See https://boxesandglue.dev/hobby/, https://github.com/boxesandglue/mpgo and https://github.com/boxesandglue/hobby

#MetaPost #go #lua

Federated!

You can now follow this site in the Fediverse.

https://www.ideepix.nl/projects/news/federated/

Various Things in MetaPost (2019)
https://habr.com/en/articles/454376/
#ycombinator #metapost #tex #illustrations

Various Things in MetaPost (2019)

https://habr.com/en/articles/454376/

#HackerNews #MetaPost #MetaPost2019 #Habr #Articles #Programming

Partly because of our #MetaPost workshop of next week at #AutomaticType #anrt @ANRT https://automatic-type-design.anrt-nancy.fr with @Ludi @eugbidaut @AntoineGelgon I'm reading an old brochure on (the always incredibly rich) archive.org about the "#Compugraphic Modular Composition System"
https://ia801000.us.archive.org/29/items/bitsavers_compugraphphicModularCompositionSystemBrochure_14979239/Compugraphic_Modular_Composition_System_Brochure_text.pdf
#photocomposition #typography
(lot of text in the alt of pictures)
According to the Compugraphic page on wikipedia "Following the success of the EditWriter, Compugraphic introduced [somewhere in the 70's] the Modular Composition System, known as the "MCS". The entire system was modular, including the software, which was delivered on 5" floppy disks. As the product matured, a "#WYSIWYG" (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) display was added (the PreView) so that a user could see a "soft" view of a job before it was typeset. This was followed up by the PowerView whereby the user worked directly on a "WYSIWYG" display. The MCS was a huge success, and also marked a change in technology from 8bit to 16bit (Intel 8086) cpu hardware."

Metapost or your Brain

Today I burned my last half-neuron to solve a #design issue with #Metapost.
Now that I achieved my goal I was left without brain, how can I go forward now?

My brain is wired to solve graphical/design issues not to solve coding ones, even when both overlap, my concerns belong to the visual space.

Now, that I don't have a sane neuron left anymore, I don't know what do to... 😖

I am definitively screwed... 😭

#xml #fun #ironic #tex

There are two things that always fascinated me. One, the graphics language developed in #MetaFont → #MetaPost → #asymptote And second, connecting various libraries from different sources.

With that in mind, here's another proof of concept of an interface for loading asymptote paths expressions into #CadQuery.

With Chrome 121, we can animate a smooth transition between font-palettes in Color Fonts using only CSS.

Here is a demo using Nupuram Color font.

#variablefonts #colorfonts #metapost

Gavin about #documentation for #MetaPost:

I am working with #MetaPost in #ConTeXt. Here are the resources I use, roughly in the order I search when trying to solve a problem.

➤ #MetaFun Manual (http://www.pragma-ade.nl/general/manuals/metafun-p.pdf) This is most comprehensive and helpful source.
➤ MetaPost Manual (http://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/doc/metapost/mpman.pdf) This is not specific to ConTeXt, but it is very useful.
➤ The MetaFun page on the ConTeXt wiki (https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Graphics_and_media/Tutorials/Graphical_programming_with_MetaPost_and_MetaFun)
🧵
#LuaTeX #LuaMetaTeX

Gavin about #documentation for #MetaPost:

I am working with #MetaPost in #ConTeXt. Here are the resources I use, roughly in the order I search when trying to solve a problem.

➤ #MetaFun Manual (http://www.pragma-ade.nl/general/manuals/metafun-p.pdf) This is most comprehensive and helpful source.
➤ MetaPost Manual (http://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/doc/metapost/mpman.pdf) This is not specific to ConTeXt, but it is very useful.
➤ The MetaFun page on the ConTeXt wiki (https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Graphics_and_media/Tutorials/Graphical_programming_with_MetaPost_and_MetaFun)
🧵
#LuaTeX #LuaMetaTeX

Gavin about #documentation for #MetaPost:

I am working with #MetaPost in #ConTeXt. Here are the resources I use, roughly in the order I search when trying to solve a problem.

➤ #MetaFun Manual (http://www.pragma-ade.nl/general/manuals/metafun-p.pdf) This is most comprehensive and helpful source.
➤ MetaPost Manual (http://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/doc/metapost/mpman.pdf) This is not specific to ConTeXt, but it is very useful.
➤ The MetaFun page on the ConTeXt wiki (https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Graphics_and_media/Tutorials/Graphical_programming_with_MetaPost_and_MetaFun)
🧵
#LuaTeX #LuaMetaTeX

Gavin about #documentation for #MetaPost:

I am working with #MetaPost in #ConTeXt. Here are the resources I use, roughly in the order I search when trying to solve a problem.

➤ #MetaFun Manual (http://www.pragma-ade.nl/general/manuals/metafun-p.pdf) This is most comprehensive and helpful source.
➤ MetaPost Manual (http://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/doc/metapost/mpman.pdf) This is not specific to ConTeXt, but it is very useful.
➤ The MetaFun page on the ConTeXt wiki (https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Graphics_and_media/Tutorials/Graphical_programming_with_MetaPost_and_MetaFun)
🧵
#LuaTeX #LuaMetaTeX

Gavin about #documentation for #MetaPost:

I am working with #MetaPost in #ConTeXt. Here are the resources I use, roughly in the order I search when trying to solve a problem.

➤ #MetaFun Manual (http://www.pragma-ade.nl/general/manuals/metafun-p.pdf) This is most comprehensive and helpful source.
➤ MetaPost Manual (http://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/doc/metapost/mpman.pdf) This is not specific to ConTeXt, but it is very useful.
➤ The MetaFun page on the ConTeXt wiki (https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Graphics_and_media/Tutorials/Graphical_programming_with_MetaPost_and_MetaFun)
🧵
#LuaTeX #LuaMetaTeX

A module for drawing globes by Gavin Polhemus is in the making:
https://github.com/GavinPolhemus/luageo

… and Hans Hagen promised to add some 3D (projections, “2.5D”) features to #MetaFun within 2024.

#ConTeXt #MetaPost #Lua #LuaTeX #maps

Still thinking about a pure Go graphics language for boxes and glue. One option would be porting #MetaPost to Go, but this is quite a bit of work. Any other possibilities / ideas?

https://tug.org/metapost.html

#boxesandglue #metapost #golang #graphics

Thanks #BehdadEsfahbod for pointing me to this great article on #opentype font design with #metapost! Perhaps I’ll extend it with a cursive Hebrew version. That would yield a Hebrew color font. I wonder if there are any other Hebrew color fonts? See: https://typoday.in/spk_papers/Santhosh_Thottingal_Typoday2023.pdf

Thanks #BehdadEsfahbod for pointing me to this great article on #opentype font design with #metapost! Perhaps I’ll extend it with a cursive Hebrew version. That would yield a Hebrew color font. I wonder if there are any other Hebrew color fonts? See: https://typoday.in/spk_papers/Santhosh_Thottingal_Typoday2023.pdf

Thanks #BehdadEsfahbod for pointing me to this great article on #opentype font design with #metapost! Perhaps I’ll extend it with a cursive Hebrew version. That would yield a Hebrew color font. I wonder if there are any other Hebrew color fonts? See: https://typoday.in/spk_papers/Santhosh_Thottingal_Typoday2023.pdf

Like every time, the upcoming context group journal (AKA proceedings of the previous #ConTeXt meeting) will contain several interesting articles, e.g. by Taco on #Metapost and by Willi on his extended version of #PocketMod.

It’s a pity that only the few members of context group get to read them. (Some articles appear also in #NTG’s MAPS or in #TUGboat, and sometimes I manage to translate one for #DANTE’s #DTK...)

#strokefonts 3 days workshop, 8 schools, 70 hands online on a #BigBlueButton + #metapost common code on #etherpads. From a common version, timelapses of 4 diverging forks on 5 #fonts work in progress.
#LaCambre #Erg #ANRT #EnsadNancy #HEARStrasbourg #HEARMulhouse #ESADReims #ESALMetz

#strokefonts 3 days workshop, 8 schools, 70 hands online on a #BigBlueButton + #metapost common code on #etherpads. From a common version, timelapses of 4 diverging forks on 5 #fonts work in progress.
#LaCambre #Erg #ANRT #EnsadNancy #HEARStrasbourg #HEARMulhouse #ESADReims #ESALMetz

Stroke fonts online 3 days workshop using #Metapost with @osp_kitchen and 35 participants
#strokefonts #workshop - using the #BigBlueButton instance of Constant association
@erg_be @La_Cambre — @EnsadNancy — HEAR Strasbourg - Mulhouse — ESAD Reims — ESAL Metz — @ANRT_type #typography

"Mais ce matin, te mettre ça dans les mains, https://youtu.be/z4sSgN6Auhw?t=38 et ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ une version libre et un peu foffole #metapost de la #Korinna que #Benguiat a redessiné pour #Berthold un jour si ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇ #Gilbert est imprimeur."
#Hunstad #RTBF

@Ludi @AntoineGelgon #typography #metapost #metafont

The program of the last #Contour week-end is online. Development and design of the website by #OSP with good intricate #metapost loops inside.
https://www.contour9.be