![METAFONT
“meta-font” is a schematic description of how to draw a family of fonts, not simply the drawings themselves. Such description give more or less precise rules abouthow to produce drawings of letters, and the rules will ideally be expressed in terms of variable parameters so that a single description will actually specify many different drawings.
[Reading from The Concept of a Meta-Font]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kt87772C0y1qa3isxo1_500.jpg)
METAFONT
“meta-font” is a schematic description of how to draw a family of fonts, not simply
the drawings themselves. Such description give more or less precise rules about
how to produce drawings of letters, and the rules will ideally be expressed in
terms of variable parameters so that a single description will actually specify
many different drawings.
[Reading from The Concept of a Meta-Font]
