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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-useMF.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-useMF.html index 6a07528d172..9b13dc58fe0 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-useMF.html +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-useMF.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <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 +<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 @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ similar; for example, it will be 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 ‘size’ of Metafont used). -<p>Now you need to make sure Metafont loads this new base when it starts up. If +<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’re ready to go. Under Unix (using the default <i>web2c</i> distribution @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ distribution this does indeed happen, but we could for instance define a command <i>mf</i> which executes <code>virmf &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 +<p/>The usual way to create a font with <code>plain</code> Metafont is to start it with the line <pre> @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ escaped, so this would typically look something like <pre> mf '\mode=epson; mag=magstep 1; input cmr10' </pre> -<p>If you don’t have <i>inimf</i> or need a special mode that isn’t +<p/>If you don’t have <i>inimf</i> or need a special mode that isn’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>\smode</code> command. For example, to create <i>cmr10.300gf</i> for an LN03 printer, using @@ -97,10 +97,10 @@ 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’re using. Once you’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 +<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> +<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> |