fontimport(1)

NAME

fontimport - import fonts into the teTeX directory struc
ture

SYNOPSIS

fontimport [-d] [-f] [-s] [-t] [-m MF-mode] path ...

DESCRIPTION

fontimport imports TFM and PK font files into appropriate places in the teTeX directory tree and revises teTeX's
filename database accordingly.

Each path may be a font file or a directory, either abso
lute or relative to the current directory. All subdirec
tories of a given directory are searched for font files.
Don't specify directory names that are symbolic links,
however, since (at least some versions of) find(1) won't
dereference them.

A font's destination is determined by variables in the
file texmf.cnf. By default, fontimport will issue a warn ing to stderr instead of overwriting an existing font file. The -f flag forces overwriting.

fontimport can cope with font names conforming the 8.3-namescheme, too, so you can import fonts from either a
TDS-compliant or MSDOS installation. emTeX's font
libraries are not supported. If you want to import fonts
from a font library, you need to unpack it with emTeX's
fontlib utility first.

The full pathname of each font successfully imported is
echoed to stdout. When fontimport can not parse a font's name, it will import the font using a path element of
"/unknown/" and issue a warning on stderr.

fontimport tries to guess the mode of PK files. With the -m flag you may specify a fallback mode to be used if the
mode can't be guessed.

Options:

-m MF-MODE
default Metafont mode for PK files if
autodetection fails
-d delete font files after copying (i.e., move
them)
-f force overwrite existing fonts
-s do not use other destinations than the sys
tem's main texmf tree
-t test mode: just echo each font's destination
(if any); don't move or copy

SEE ALSO

allec(1), allneeded(1), fontexport(1), Fontname: Filenames for TeX Fonts (http://tug.org/fontname).

AUTHOR

Thomas Esser (te@informatik.uni-hannover.de)
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