Re: Metafont and Context

[Bill McClain <wmcclain@salamander.com>]

On Sun, 18 May 2003 01:40:57 +0200
"Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini" <wwl@musensturm.de> wrote:

> Has anybody written typescripts for one of the Metafonts available at
> CTAN and can send me an example or two?

If no one else has anything I could work up an example. I've not done
much with MF fonts, but just ran a test to verify that I could access a
MF face on TeXLive. 

The typescript mechanics are the same regardless of font format. For MF
files mktexpk must be run first to generate the pk files. To do this I
made a dvi version of the document first, and then xdvi generated the pk
files correctly. Then the --pdf run was able to include them. I presume
there is a way to do this in one step automatically, but the the only
time I normally see mktexpk is when I've made a mistake in declaring my
type1 fonts and it tries to generate something that doesn't exist!

-Bill
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