fontimport(1) teTeX fontimport(1)NAMEfontimport - import fonts into the teTeX directory struc-
ture
SYNOPSISfontimport [-d] [-f] [-s] [-t] [-m MF-mode] path ...
DESCRIPTIONfontimport 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 ALSOallec(1), allneeded(1), fontexport(1), Fontname:
Filenames for TeX Fonts (http://tug.org/fontname).
AUTHOR
Thomas Esser (te@dbs.uni-hannover.de)
teTeX 4/99 fontimport(1)
