When TEX and Metafont Work Together
Alan Hoenig · 1997
When TEX and Metafont communicate to each other, they can do more together than they can alone. This presentation concentrates on two illustrations of this principal, and urges readers to come up with more. When TEX becomes sensitive to information passed to it from Metafont, it is possible to prepare diagrams and figures using Metafont and then to have TEX prepare labels which can be precisely positionedwithin the figure. When communication goes the other way, TEX and Metafont can prepare special purpose fonts which (among other things) can be set along curved baselines. Illustrations of both techniques are presented.