EXAMPLES 2.9.0 92/07/06 -- random examples of mff use 

mff ma55a5 ma55a7 ma55a10 ma56a5 ma56a7 ma56a10 ma75a5 ma75a7 ma75a10
mff ma{55,56,75}a{5,7,10}

    This creates a simple family of 9 fonts.  (The second line is equivalent
    to the first if your command shell has C-shell's brace notation.)

mff -S -m0,h,1,2,3,4,5 cmr10 cmmi10 cmsy10 

    Using mff to create non-"mffified" fonts.


mff ma{3,5,7}{5,6}a18 && testfont \\text ma{3,5,7}{5,6}a18

    I used commands like this when designing Malvern -- after proofing a new
    glyph, I would try it out in different weights and styles.  testfont is
    a shellscript that runs TeX on testfont.tex.  The && ensures that if one
    of the fonts cannot be created, testfont is not invoked.


mff -f ditko dk65s72 dk35s72 && tex ditko.tex

    (ditko.tex produces the logo that the fonts were created for.)


grep '^ma' somedoc.fonts | ( cd ~/mf/Malvern; mff -vf - )

    somedoc.fonts is a file with the names of fonts used by somedoc.tex, one
    per line.  This command finds a list of the Malvern fonts and invokes
    mff to create them.  The file could be created by using TeX code along
    these lines:

	\newwrite\fontlistfile \openout\fontlistfile=\jobname.fonts
	\def\ldfont#1#2%
	{%
		\write\fontlistfile{#2}%
		\def\subfont{\font#1=cmr10 }%
		\font#1=#2\relax
	}

    \ldfont is used instead of \font (either immediately or through
    some sort of auto-loading system).  If the font is unavailable the
    user can type "i\subfont" to use cmr10 instead for this run.


mff -d300 -zCanonCX gray300 -d118 -zbitgraph gray118 

    I use this to create "gray" fonts for viewing proofs using GFtoDVI.


mff -vf-

    I sometimes run this in an X window when I am TeX'ing a document
    with lots of Malvern in it after I've rm'd all the font files.
    Whenever I get a "missing font" error message I simply stuff the
    name of the font in the mff window and i\subfont into the TeX
    window.  Next TeX run the font is available.  (The -v is so that the
    #{{{...#}}} lines tell me when it has finished.)