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Craig

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LaTeX is just a set of TeX macros, so there is no difference between
fonts for them.  And yes, there is program.  It is called TeX.

Try this:

   tex testfont

and respond for a few questions which will show up on your screen.
Print results and enjoy.

On Unix systems it is normally possible to feed answers from stdin
redirected from a file, if you plan to do that in bulk.

   Michal

Most TeX and*fonts are actually different-sized versions of the
same font.  That is, there are separate 10 point, 12 point, etc., files
for, say, roman (what TeX calls `cmr').  If the question is: ``I've got
this huge---and numerous---collection of font files, and don't think
I need them all, how can I cut it down?''  Then the best answer I know of
is to (i) set TeX up to auto-create font files when it runs across
a document that has them (this means keeping Metafont and the font source
code around so there is some cost here), and (ii) delete all the font
files.

Now the first few documents will take quite a while, as TeX will need to
create all the fonts in those documents.  But I'm told that experience
shows a 1/3 to 1/2 reduction in font files will be the result.

I hope that is helpful.

Test of <whatever font> on <date>

For example, I have a font with three variations: tel20, tel20b (the
bold version) and tel20s (the slanted version). When I ran "tex testfont"
on each of them, I got only the font table for tel20s.

Can this be explained?

Thanks for your time,
Prakash Kailasa

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