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- This folder contains Tom Kiffe's Metafont program for use with OzTeX.
- See OzTeX's Read-Me file for installation instructions and details about
- Tom's shareware fees.
-
- The mf application is actually a "small" implementation of Metafont,
- but it is perfectly adequate for building new fonts. If you want a "big"
- version of mf, or a native PowerPC version, extract them from Tom's full
- CMacTeX distribution. You can find these files at any CTAN archive in
- /tex-archive/systems/mac/cmactex. Get the Readme.Index file first;
- it tells you which files you need.
-
- At start up, mf looks for a base file with the same name as the application.
- If you use inimf to build plain.base, you need to rename this file "mf.base"
- so that mf will load it. These ".base" files are located in the mfbases
- folder, along with "mf.pool" which is read by inimf at start up.
-
- To build a base file for Metafont, launch inimf and select "Run".
- At the ** prompt type "plain" and press the return key. Inimf will read
- plain.mf and present you with a * prompt. At this prompt type "input modes"
- to load modes.mf. At the next * prompt, type "dump" and inimf will create
- "plain.base". Rename this file "mf.base" and move it to the mfbases folder.
-
- The easiest way to build new PK fonts is to use MakeTeXPK, but if you want
- to build a font directly from mf then launch the program and select "Run".
- At the prompt type "\mode=laserwriter; input cmr10" and mf will create
- cmr10.tfm and cmr10.300gf. Run GFtoPK on cmr10.300gf to create cmr10.300pk.
- Put the tfm file in the CM sub-folder in TeX-fonts and the pk file in the
- 300 sub-folder in PK-files.
-
- To build a font "foo" you must have a file "foo.mf" in the mfinputs folder.
- It includes the most common .mf files. Other such files may be downloaded
- from any CTAN archive. They are all plain text files.
-