fontinst(1)

💖 NAME 💖

fontinst — the little utility that runs TeX as fontinst, no cap 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

fontinst package

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the vibe, bestie: fontinst runs tex(1) with the --progname flag set to pretend to be the program fontinst — which lowkey affects the Karl Berry paths. That's it. That's the whole trick. 👑

Typing this:

fontinst fontinst.sty

will start tex(1) and hand you an interactive prompt — literally just a * — where you can type your fontinst commands, like, for example:

\latinfamily{ptm}{}\bye

Main character energy fr fr. 💅

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🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

• tex(1)
• The fontinst manual, fontinst.tex 📖
• Web page: <https://tug.org/applications/fontinst/> 🌈

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💀 BUGS 💀

Found something broken? Email your bug reports to <https://lists.tug.org/fontinst> — that's a public mailing list, so everyone gets to see, iykyk 🙈

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Thomas Esser ✨

This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly for the Debian GNU/Linux system. It's now maintained as part of TeX Live. Slay. 🫶

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okay that's the whole page, bestie — TeX Live, 8 March 2022, fontinst(1), and the manual name was General Commands Manual in case you were wondering. bye bye 💖🧚🌸