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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-keepfonts.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-keepfonts.html deleted file mode 100644 index 23f20ef8905..00000000000 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-keepfonts.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,27 +0,0 @@ -<head> -<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label keepfonts</title> -</head><body> -<h3>Which font files should be kept</h3> -<p/>Metafont produces from its run three files, a metrics (TFM) file, a -generic font (GF) file, and a log file; all of these files have the -same base name as does the input (<em>e.g.</em>, if the input file was -<i>cmr10.mf</i>, the outputs will be <i>cmr10.tfm</i>, -<i>cmr10.nnngf</i> - -and <i>cmr10.log</i>). -<p/>For TeX to use the font, you need a TFM file, so you need -to keep that. However, you are likely to generate the same font -at more than one magnification, and each time you do so you’ll -(incidentally) generate another TFM file; these files are -all the same, so you only need to keep one of them. -<p/>To preview or to produce printed output, the DVI processor will need a -font raster file; this is what the GF file provides. However, while -there used (once upon a time) to be DVI processors that could use -GF files, modern processors use packed raster (PK) files. -Therefore, you need to generate a PK file from the GF file; the -program <i>gftopk</i> does this for you, and once you’ve done that you -may throw the GF file away. -<p/>The log file should never need to be used, unless there was some sort -of problem in the Metafont run, and need not be ordinarily kept. -<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=keepfonts">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=keepfonts</a> -</body> |