Adapting Ω to OpenType Fonts
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Nowadays, TEX and its successors still use METAFONT or PostScript Type 1 as their primary font formats, while the “outside world” is moving on to OpenType, a likely candidate for the future font standard in computer-based typography. The project we are going to present in this article represents the first step of a long-term plan of adapting the fullΩ system toOpenType. As a result of our work, the first version of a new, OpenType-compatible odvips is available. This article presents the basic concepts of our solution as well as our further development plans for the project.
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