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-<head>
-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label useMF</title>
-</head><body>
-<h3>Getting Metafont to do what you want</h3>
-<p/>Metafont allows you to create your own fonts, and most TeX users
-will never need to use it. Metafont, unlike TeX, requires some
-customisation: each output device for which you will be generating
-fonts needs a mode associated with it. Modes are defined using the
-<code>mode_def</code> convention described on page 94 of <em>The Metafontbook</em>
-(see <a href="FAQ-books.html">TeX-related books</a>). You will need
-a file, which conventionally called <i>local.mf</i>, containing all the
-<code>mode_def</code>s you will be using. If <i>local.mf</i> doesn&rsquo;t already
-exist, Karl Berry&rsquo;s collection of modes (<i>modes.mf</i>)
-is a good starting point
-(it can be used as a &lsquo;<i>local.mf</i>&rsquo; without modification in a &lsquo;big
-enough&rsquo; implementation of Metafont). Lists of
-settings for various output devices are also published periodically in
-<i>TUGboat</i> (see <a href="FAQ-TUGstar.html">TUG</a>). Now create
-a <code>plain</code> base
-file using <i>inimf</i>, <code>plain.mf</code>, and <code>local.mf</code>:
-<pre>
- % inimf
- This is METAFONT...
- **plain # you type plain
- (output)
- *input local # you type this
- (output)
- *dump # you type this
- Beginning to dump on file plain...
- (output)
-</pre>
-
-This will create a base file named <i>plain.base</i> (or something
-similar; for example, it will be
-
- <i>PLAIN.BAS</i>
-on MSDOS systems) which should be moved to the directory containing
-the base files on your system (note that some systems have two or more
-such directories, one for each &lsquo;size&rsquo; of Metafont used).
-<p/>Now you need to make sure Metafont loads this new base when it starts up. If
-Metafont loads the <code>plain</code> base by default on your system, then you&rsquo;re
-ready to go. Under Unix (using the default <i>web2c</i>
-distribution
-)
-this does indeed happen, but we could for instance define a command
-<i>mf</i> which executes <code>virmf &amp;plain</code> loading the
-<code>plain</code> base file.
-<p/>The usual way to create a font with <code>plain</code> Metafont is to start
-it with the
-
-line
-<pre>
-\mode=&lt;mode name&gt;; mag=&lt;magnification&gt;; input &lt;font file name&gt;
-</pre>
-in response to the &lsquo;<code>**</code>&rsquo; prompt or on the Metafont command line. (If
-<code>&lt;mode name&gt;</code> is unknown or omitted, the mode defaults to &lsquo;proof&rsquo; and
-Metafont will produce an output file called
-
-<i>&lt;font file name&gt;.2602gf</i>)
-The <code>&lt;magnification&gt;</code> is a floating point number or
-&lsquo;magstep&rsquo; (magsteps are defined in <em>The Metafontbook</em> and
-<em>The TeXbook</em>).
-If <code>mag=&lt;magnification&gt;</code> is omitted, then the default
-is 1 (magstep 0). For example, to generate cmr10 at 12pt for an epson
-printer you would type
-<pre>
- mf \mode=epson; mag=magstep 1; input cmr10
-</pre>
-Note that under Unix the <code>\</code> and <code>;</code>
-characters must usually be quoted or escaped, so this would typically
-look something like
-<pre>
- mf '\mode=epson; mag=magstep 1; input cmr10'
-</pre>
-<p/>If you don&rsquo;t have <i>inimf</i> or need a special mode that isn&rsquo;t
-in the base, you can put its commands in a file (<em>e.g.</em>,
-<i>ln03.mf</i>) and invoke it on the fly with the <code>\</code><code>smode</code> command.
-For example, to create <i>cmr10.300gf</i> for an LN03 printer, using
-the file
-<pre>
- % This is ln03.mf as of 1990/02/27
- % mode_def courtesy of John Sauter
- proofing:=0;
- fontmaking:=1;
- tracingtitles:=0;
- pixels_per_inch:=300;
- blacker:=0.65;
- fillin:=-0.1;
- o_correction:=.5;
-</pre>
-(note the absence of the <code>mode_def</code> and <code>enddef</code>
-commands), you would type
-<pre>
- mf \smode="ln03"; input cmr10
-</pre>
-This technique isn&rsquo;t one you should regularly use, but it may
-prove useful if you acquire a new printer and want to experiment with
-parameters, or for some other reason are regularly editing the
-parameters you&rsquo;re using. Once you&rsquo;ve settled on an appropriate set of
-parameters, you should use them to rebuild the base file that you use.
-<p/>Other sources of help are mentioned in
-<a href="FAQ-mfptutorials.html">Metafont and MetaPost Tutorials</a>.
-<dl>
-<dt><tt><i>modes.mf</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/modes/modes.mf">fonts/modes/modes.mf</a>
-</dl>
-<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=useMF">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=useMF</a>
-</body>