[Q] TFM files headers

Taylor, P P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk
Fri Sep 13 10:15:32 CEST 2019


Tomas Rokicki wrote:

A google search immediately returns

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX_font_metric

which has the appropriate reference to tftopl as well as being a pretty easy read itself.

Thank you Tom.  I followed the link and found therein a further link<http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb02-1/tb02fuchstfm.pdf> to a TUGboat article by David Fuchs entitlted What happens when you say "\font A=CMR10"  (note: no slash before "A").  Do you have any idea of which iteration of TeX David was writing, since TeX82 would require "\font \A=CMR10" whilst TeX78 would have required (as David himself notes) "\:A=CMR10".  BNB cc'd as she may know the answer.

Philip Taylor
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