fontinst(1)

fontinst1

Utility to run tex as fontinst

Usage

fontinst package

Overview

fontinst runs tex(1) with the --progname flag set to pretend to be the program fontinst (affecting Karl Berry paths).

Typing

fontinst fontinst.sty

will start tex(1) and give the user an interactive prompt (*) where fontinst commands can be typed (such as \latinfamily{ptm}{}\bye).

Releases

15 releases since Debian 2.1 (Slink); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 2.1
  2. 2.2
  3. 3.0
  4. 3.1–11
  5. 12–Arch

Bugs

Email bug reports to <https://lists.tug.org/fontinst> (public mailing list).

Author

Thomas Esser

This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly for the Debian GNU/Linux system. It is now maintained as part of TeX Live.

From texlive-doc 2026.1-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.