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20:34:41
jackdaniel
subclass the event class (see examples) and handle printing in handle-event for thread safety
7:01:26
no-defun-allowed
Hah, I saw a video about designing that font yesterday <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGo4PJd1lng>
7:24:36
no-defun-allowed
Some of the illustrative changes made in the video, like adjusting the pen width of the stem of the treble clef and the 8, reminded me of how I found drawing fonts by their outlines awkward (perhaps not helped by the mouse I have, which has a broken button - guess I do have to replace it), so I ended up learning Metafont to use the pen drawing model. Maybe it's not a problem if you're good at font drawing.
7:55:38
beach
Yeah, I was attracted to Metafont as well, but the lack of interactive feedback makes it extremely tedious sometimes.
7:57:17
beach
The advantage of a Metafont-like for what I did for Gsharp was that it was straightforward to line up control points with staff lines, note stems, and such.
7:57:58
beach
But that kind of stuff is going to be needed less and less with high-resolution display devices.
8:01:42
no-defun-allowed
I see. I was also hoping for something interactive, but no font editor program that I could find uses pens sadly.
8:03:41
no-defun-allowed
Well, I was following a tutorial book, and it described how to draw at the Metafont REPL, but that's quite short of what would be needed to draw an entire font.