Re: Help with MetaFont

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From: Timothy Murphy
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 00:52

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aix3!wjg@netcom.com (Joey Gibson) writes:

>Recently in comp.text.tex, someone posted a file containing
>MetaFont input to produce a font for drawing springs. I took
>this file, and ran it through MetaFont, giving me a file
>called ``spring.260''. My question is, what do I do now?

You could use testfont to see what the characters look like.

% tex testfont
...
Font > spring [or whatever]
* \table
* \bye

% dvips testfont

I wonder was that .260 correct?
Did you specify the mode (or printer) you were using?
(See the Metafont book p278-279.)

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
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Subject: Re: Help with MetaFont
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