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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-textrace.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-textrace.html index 1e06ca68cda..17afb4f970a 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-textrace.html +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-textrace.html @@ -2,28 +2,28 @@ <title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label textrace</title> </head><body> <h3>Making outline fonts from Metafont</h3> -<p/><i>TeXtrace</i>, originally developed by Péter Szabó, is a -bundle of Unix scripts that use Martin Weber’s freeware boundary +<p/><i>TeXtrace</i>, originally developed by Péter Szabó, is a +bundle of Unix scripts that use Martin Weber’s freeware boundary tracing package <a href="http://autotrace.sourceforge.net"><i>autotrace</a></i> to generate Type 1 outline fonts from Metafont bitmap font outputs. The result is unlikely ever to be of the quality of -the commercially-produced Type 1 font, but there’s always the +the commercially-produced Type 1 font, but there’s always the <a href="http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/"><i>FontForge</a></i> font editor to tidy things. Whatever, there remain fonts which many people find useful and which fail to attract the paid experts, and auto-tracing is providing a useful service here. Notable sets of -fonts generated using <i>TeXtrace</i> are Péter Szabó’s own -EC/TC font set <i>tt2001</i> and Vladimir Volovich’s +fonts generated using <i>TeXtrace</i> are Péter Szabó’s own +EC/TC font set <i>tt2001</i> and Vladimir Volovich’s CM-Super set, which covers the EC, TC, and the Cyrillic LH font sets (for details of both of which sets, see -<a href="FAQ-type1T1.html">“8-bit” type 1 fonts</a>). +<a href="FAQ-type1T1.html">“8-bit” type 1 fonts</a>). <p/>Another system, which arrived slightly later, is <a href="http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/mftrace/"><i>mftrace</a></i>: this is a small <i>Python</i> program that does the same job. <i>Mftrace</i> may use either <i>autotrace</i> (like -<i>TeXtrace</i>) or Peter Selinger’s +<i>TeXtrace</i>) or Peter Selinger’s <a href="http://potrace.sourceforge.net"><i>potrace</a></i> to produce the initial outlines to process. <i>Mftrace</i> is said to be more flexible, and easier to use, than is <i>TeXtrace</i>, but both systems |