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 gener-
ated 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 MF, 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 possibility 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) pro-
gram, for example, can use this to get a clue about the font encoding,
although the information is not always perfectly definitive or unam-
biguous.
For more about the encodings of Metafont fonts, see the section ``Bit-
map font encodings'' in the Dvips manual (e.g., https://tug.org/texin-
fohtml/dvips.html).
The many other environment variables and various configuration files
that control a TeX system also affect the behavior of mktextfm, as
usual.
SEE ALSO
mf(1), mktexmf(1), mktexpk(1).
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to: tex-k@tug.org (https://lists.tug.org/tex-k)
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