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MKTEXTFM(1)                                 User Commands                                MKTEXTFM(1)



NAME
       mktextfm - create a TFM file for a font

SYNOPSIS
       mktextfm [options] font

DESCRIPTION
       mktextfm  is  used  to  generate  a  tfm  file  from  the  Metafont source files for font, or
       hbf2gf(1), if possible.  If destdir is given, the generated file  will  be  installed  there,
       otherwise  a  (rather  complicated) heuristic is used.  If the tfm file already exists in the
       destination location, this is reported and nothing is done.

       If a GF (Generic Font) bitmap file is also generated, as is typical with ΜF, it is  converted
       to PK (Packed Font) and installed similarly.

       The full pathname of the generated file is printed on standard output.

       If available, the mf-nowin(1) variant of Metafont is used to generate fonts to avoid the pos‐
       sibility of online display.

       mktextfm is typically called by other programs, via Kpathsea, rather than  from  the  command
       line.

OPTIONS
       mktextfm accepts the following options:

       --destdir dir
              A  directory  name.  If the directory is absolute, it is used as-is.  Otherwise, it is
              appended to the root destination directory set in the script.

       --help Print help message and exit successfully.

       --version
              Print version information and exit successfully.

ENVIRONMENT
       One environment variable is specific to mktextfm: MF_MODE_EXTRA_INFO.  If this is  set  to  a
       non-empty  value,  a  Metafont macro mode_include_extra_info will be invoked when the font is
       made.  The standard modes.mf file defines this, as of modes.mf version 4.0, released in 2020.
       This causes the so-called Xerox-world information, notably including the CODINGSCHEME for the
       font, to be included in the tfm file. (This is not done by default since it is too  intrusive
       to  redefine  the  necessary primitives, per Don Knuth.) The mftrace(1) program, for example,
       can use this to get a clue about the font encoding, although the information  is  not  always
       perfectly definitive or unambiguous.

       For  more about the encodings of Metafont fonts, see the section ``Bitmap font encodings'' in
       the Dvips manual (e.g., https://tug.org/texinfohtml/dvips.html).

       The many other environment variables and various configuration files that control a TeX  sys‐
       tem also affect the behavior of mktextfm, as usual.

SEE ALSO
       mf(1), mktexmf(1), mktexpk(1).

REPORTING BUGS
       Report bugs to: tex-k AT tug.org (https://lists.tug.org/tex-k)
       TeX Live home page: https://tug.org/texlive/



TeX Live                                   30 January 2020                               MKTEXTFM(1)