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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-tfm.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-tfm.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..7b48723f228 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-tfm.html @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +<head> +<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label tfm</title> +</head><body> +<h3>What are TFM files?</h3> +<p/>TFM stands for TeX Font Metrics; TFM files hold +information about the sizes of the characters of the font in question, +and about ligatures and kerns within that font. One TFM file is +needed for each font used by TeX, that is for each design (point) +size for each weight for each family; each TFM file serves for all +magnifications of ‘its’ font, so that there are (typically) fewer +TFM files than there are PK files. TeX (LaTeX, etc.) +itself needs only to know about the sizes of characters and their +interactions with each other, but not what characters look like. By +contrast, TFM files are not, in principle, needed by the +DVI driver, which only needs to know about the glyphs that each +character selects, so as to print or display them. +<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=tfm">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=tfm</a> +</body> |