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Joey Gibson asks about using someone else's METAFONT source.

I like your questions, Joey...they're ones I can answer! 8^)

METAFONT produces, as you've noticed, a generic font file (spring.260gf,
in the case you mentioned) and a font metric file (sprint.tfm, the
one METAFONT couldn't find).

You correctly used gftopk to create the packed font file, sprint.pk.
Now comes the fun part: the system-dependent part. You should have
a directory that is either _named_ FONTS or is aliased as FONTS
using a set command (either in your autoexec.bat file or in a batch
file you run before starting emTeX). This is where the .tfm file
created by running METAFONT should go. That's the easy part: you
should find the .tfm file in the directory that you created the gf
file. (Look in your docs: there may be an environment variable
that you can set to determine where .tfm files go, which would result
in METAFONT putting it there automatically!)

This is the harder part: you have to figure out where your printer
driver looks for font files, or (having placed the .tfm file properly)
TeX will make a .dvi file with no problem, but you'll end up with
nothing for those characters in the printed output!

This is where my advice will be very limited. I'd guess that there
are numbered directories in the tree under the FONT directory. If
so, put the pk file in the properly numbered directory (260, if your
modedef was set properly!). Otherwise, you'll have to figure out where
the font file goes from the docs (or help from other Info-TeX'ers
with emTeX: I had it on a 386 about a year ago, but I got an X-windows
server, and prefer to use TeX from my microvax anyway 8^)

As for the 260 part, is this proper for your printer? (just asking!)

Although it doesn't address some system dependent subjects (like
directory structure) the METAFONT book would probably satisfy many
of your questions.

raybro