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Metafont is a description language used to define raster fonts. It is also the name of the interpreter that executes Metafont code, generating the bitmap fonts that can be embedded into e.g. PostScript. Metafont was devised by Donald Knuth as a companion to his TeX typesetting system. Wikipedia

Created Year: 1979
Developed by: Donald Knuth

Wikidata: Q1457000

Influenced: MetaPost

Programming paradigms: declarative programming

Language types: declarative programming language

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Latest data update: 2024-02-26