mktexmf(1)

mktexmf1

Create a metafont source file

Usage

mktexmf font

Overview

This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documentation for this version of TeX can be found in the info file or manual Kpathsea: A library for path searching.

mktexmf is used to generate the Metafont source file for font, if possible. For example, ecrm1200 or cmr11.

The name of the generated file is printed on standard output.

mktexmf is typically called by other programs, rather than from the command line.

Options

mktexmf accepts the following options:

--help

Print help message and exit.

--version

Print version information and exit.

Releases

16 releases since Debian 2.0 (Hamm); the text changed 11 times.

  1. 2.0–2.1
  2. 2.2
  3. 3.0
  4. 3.1
  5. 4.0
  6. 5.0
  7. 6.0
  8. 7
  9. 8
  10. 9
  11. 10
  12. 11–Arch

Reporting bugs

Report bugs to: [email protected] (https://lists.tug.org/tex-k)
TeX Live home page: https://tug.org/texlive/

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