building fonts (Metafont question?)

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From: Patrick Hess
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 08:39

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Hi,

	I don't know if this is in the FAQ, but I thought I would jump right in 
here and ask it anyway (if the answer is in the FAQ, feel free to mail the
FAQ to me and say "RTFM").  I am using Metafont to build a whole new set of
fonts.  The first time I did this, Metafont produced a .tfm file.  When I set
this all into a script (after realizing that this was gonna take a while) it
stopped producing .tfm's.  This seems bad to me.  I mean, aren't the font
metrics gonna be important later?  

	What I would like to know, is:  are my fonts going to be useless without
the .tfm's, and if they are, how do I get it to produce .tfm's?  Also (and I
figure this is probably in the FAQ) can someone tell me what all the different
format of fonts (gf and pk and pxl) mean?  Why are they needed?  Now that I have
the .mf's, what magsizes am I going to want to make (in general)?  Ack.  Help.

				Pat
				:-)

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From: phess@deepthought.unm.edu (Patrick Hess)
Subject: building fonts (Metafont question?)
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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 92 08:39:17 GMT
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