allneeded(1)

📦 version 2026.0, in alpine 3.24

✨ allneeded(1) ✨

Okay bestie, allneeded is the tool for when you need every font ready to go 💅🌸

👑 NAME

allneeded — force the calculation of all fonts now needed 🦋

💖 SYNOPSIS

allneeded [-r] files ...

🎀 DESCRIPTION

Okay so allneeded literally forces the calculation of all the fonts you need to preview a set of dvi files 🔥 You just tell it where to search for files on the commandline, and it handles the rest, no cap ✨

The font generation gets triggered by running dvips(1) over all the accessible dvi-files. So the fonts get created at the resolution dvips needs. It's giving precision 💜

If you pass the -r flag, the command dvired(1) gets used instead of dvips 🧚

allneeded does not recalculate fonts that already exist, as long as the Metafont mode doesn't change. Lowkey the best part 🫶

🌈 OPTIONS

  • -r — switches things up so dvired(1) runs instead of dvips 🦋

🍓 SEE ALSO

allec(1), allcm(1), dvips(1), dvired(1) 💅

🙈 AUTHOR

Thomas Esser <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de> 👑

Till next time, bestie 💜 teTeX · 11/94 · allneeded(1) 🌸

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