fontimport
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 absolute or relative to the current
directory. All subdirectories 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 warning 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
delete font files after copying (i.e., move them)
-f force
-t test
just echo each font's destination (if any); don't move or copy
