The question of how the bitmap IBM VGA 8x16 font would look like with curves that keep its nature has been trotting in my mind for some time. Sun's out, so I took to my (mediocre) sketching.

Might make it into a #MetaPost project idk

ps.: source font: https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/font?ibm_vga_8x16#-

#typography #bitmapfont

This was an excellent week for boxes and glue.

* the textshape Text shaper is now usable and passes almost all harfbuzz tests (still working on the last ones)
* mpgo - a Go MetaPost code is now pretty much feature complete (an bug free, of course)
* hobby, a Lua frontend for mpgo works fine
* glu, a boxes and glue Lua frontend is getting more and more functionality
* boxes and glue can now render SVGs in PDF and is font aware. it uses the textshape engine to render fonts in SVG.
* Merged some pull requests for textshape and boxesandglue.

https://boxesandglue.dev

#boxesandglue #PDF #SVG #MetaPost

Gavin Polhemus published a new ConTeXt module to include a globe, centered on some geo coordinates:

https://github.com/Sophias-Compass/Luageo

https://modules.contextgarden.net/luageo

There’s a manual in doc/…

With the next ConTeXt update, it will be installable with mtxrun.

#ConTeXt #MetaPost

New software in the boxes and glue universe: mpgo and hobby. mpgo is a MetaPost library (re-)written in Go and hobby is a Lua frontend which uses the library and adds a Lua layer for programming.

See https://boxesandglue.dev/hobby/, https://github.com/boxesandglue/mpgo and https://github.com/boxesandglue/hobby

#MetaPost #go #lua