Rebecca and Rowland writes: > Do you mean that the command above tells fontinst to look for pckm8r.mtx, > and if it fails to find that, it'll look for pckm8r.afm and convert it into > an mtx file, and that this procedure is followed by fontinst at *any* time > it's looking for an mtx file? no! it only calls \transform_font if told to! NOT a primitive mechanism sebastian