Questions tagged [metafont]
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What is the type of the below argument in Pyx?
The official documentation describes that layers can be used to set the occlusion of rendered elements
canvas.layer(name, above=None, below=None)
This method creates or gets a layer with name name.
A layer is a canvas itself and can be used to…
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CSS transition with fonts
This is a tricky question:
Does CSS transition with fonts work with font-weight and font-family?
See for example:
https://www.cqrl.in/dev/font-transition.html
This is actually a Donald Knuth MetaFont question that will make Douglas Hofstadter…
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How to extract readable source code from a .web file?
I'm trying to dig into the source for Donald Knuth's Metafont compiler. However, I am getting bogged down in his toolchain. What is the best way to extract readable, navigable, source code from one of Knuth's .web files? I am toying with doing a…
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Is the metafont language a context free grammar?
Is the metafont language a context free grammar?
I am new to lexer/parser/compiler writing, and am trying to get a general idea how hard it would be to write a metafont compiler.
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