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 6 Metafont: Creating typeface families
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 Metafont is a system for producing shapes; it was designed for producing
 complete typeface families, but it can also produce geometric designs,
 dingbats, etc.  And it has considerable mathematical and
 equation-solving capabilities which can be useful entirely on their own.
 
    Metafont is a batch language, like C or Pascal: you compile a
 Metafont program into a corresponding font, rather than interactively
 drawing lines or curves.  This approach has both considerable
 disadvantages (people unfamiliar with conventional programming languages
 will be unlikely to find it usable) and considerable advantages (you can
 make your design intentions specific and parameterizable).  For a
 complete description of the Metafont language, see 'The METAFONTbook'
 (⇒References).
 

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· mf invocation               Invoking Metafont.
· Initial Metafont            Making bases.
· Modes                       Device definitions for Metafont.
· Online Metafont graphics    Seeing MF output online.
· gftodvi invocation          Making proofsheets for fonts.
· mft invocation              Prettyprinting Metafont sources.
 

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