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- From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Re: Help with MetaFont
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.005246.524@maths.tcd.ie>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 00:52:46 GMT
- References: <Pine.3.02.9208050944.A29229-a100000@aix3>
- Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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- aix3!wjg@netcom.com (Joey Gibson) writes:
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- >Recently in comp.text.tex, someone posted a file containing
- >MetaFont input to produce a font for drawing springs. I took
- >this file, and ran it through MetaFont, giving me a file
- >called ``spring.260''. My question is, what do I do now?
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- You could use testfont to see what the characters look like.
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- % tex testfont
- ...
- Font > spring [or whatever]
- * \table
- * \bye
-
- % dvips testfont
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- I wonder was that .260 correct?
- Did you specify the mode (or printer) you were using?
- (See the Metafont book p278-279.)
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- Timothy Murphy
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