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From: ibarrac@scs.fiu.edu (Carlos Ibarra)
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Subject: How does one convert TeX fonts to ditroff fonts?
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Date: 4 Oct 90 17:02:35 GMT
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Is there a way of converting .mf (Metafont) fonts to ditroff fonts for
use with a Postscript printer? We have Metafont and a bunch of nice AMS and
Babel foreign language fonts from TeX 3.0 release, but no way of using them
with ditroff. From a message by lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin) I have the
following instructions:
  1) convert the font to your printer's format
  2) generate a width table for the font
  3) add the font to the DESC file for the appropriate device
  4) arrange for troff to download the font
  5) tell troff about the font by running `makedev DESC' in the right place.

Could someone tell me what programs I need to do the conversion in (1) and
the width table generation in (2) and where to get them? Any other info
would also be appreciated.

-- Carlos Ibarra
   ibarrac@fiu.edu