[texhax] metafont mystery

[Peter King]

On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 11:13:59PM +0000, Karl Berry wrote:

> To get a different resolution, adjust the mag value.  mode:=ljfour gets
> you 600 dpi, you want 1120, 1120/600 = 1.866667, therefore (also have to
> convert gf to pk):
> 
> $ mf '\mode=ljfour; \mag=1.8666;' input yinit.mf
> $ gftopk yinit.1120gf
> $ ls -l yinit*
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 karl root 407324 Nov  2 16:11 yinit.1120gf
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 karl root 316520 Nov  2 16:11 yinit.1120pk
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 karl root   2374 Nov  2 16:11 yinit.log
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 karl root    188 Nov  2 16:11 yinit.tfm

Perfect! Thank you.

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