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From: ahl@technix.oz.au (Tony Landells)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: MetaFont help (probably basic)
Message-ID: <AHL.90Aug5201524@saussure.technix.oz.au>
Date: 5 Aug 90 10:15:24 GMT
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Sender: ahl@technix.oz.au (Tony Landells)
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In-Reply-To: kinch@uwovax.uwo.ca's message of 2 Aug 90 20:46:34 GMT

If you're getting .GF but not a .TFM, then it sounds like you are
using a mode that isn't specified to produce fonts.  Instead of just
running Metafont and saying 'input file;end', you have to say
something like '\mode=localfont;input file;end'.  By convention,
localfont should be setup to produce fonts for your site's normal
output device.

If you want to see what devices are defined for your site, look in
your Metafont "inputs" or "macros" directory for something with a name
like "local.mf", which should be the site-specific extensions to the
plain base.  It's not necessary to understand everything in the file,
but you should be able to work out which modes exist (for use in place
of 'localfont' in the example above), and which of them actually
produce fonts.

Hope this helps,
Tony.