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+<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label instmffont</title>
+</head><body>
+<h3>Installing a font provided as Metafont source</h3>
+<p/>Metafont fonts are (by comparison with other sorts of font) rather
+pleasingly simple. Nowadays, they are mostly distributed just as the
+Metafont source, since modern TeX distributions are able to produce
+everything the user needs &ldquo;on the fly&rdquo;; however, if the distribution
+<em>does</em> include TFM files, install them too, since they
+save a little time and don&rsquo;t occupy much disc space. Always distrust
+distributions of PK font bitmap files: there&rsquo;s no way of
+learning from them what printer they were generated for, and naming
+schemes under different operating systems are another source of
+confusion.
+<p/>&ldquo;<a href="FAQ-install-where.html">Where to install files</a>&rdquo;
+specifies where the files should go.
+<p/>Further confusion is introduced by font families whose authors devise rules
+for automatic generation of Metafont sources for generating fonts at
+particular sizes; the installation has to know about the rules, as
+otherwise it cannot generate font files.
+<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=instmffont">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=instmffont</a>
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