Metafont

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File Format
Name Metafont
Ontology
Extension(s) .mf, .gf
Released ≤1984

Metafont is a font generation program associated with TeX. Its main function is to convert an .mf source font to a .gf (Generic Font) file and a .tfm (TeX Font Metrics) file. Typically, one would then convert the .gf file to some other standard font format.

Metafont is written in WEB.

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A GF file begins with bytes f7 83.

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