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I started studying metafont. I created some basics MF, with a single char.

I would like to modify existing font, but I see no 'makefile' that I can just use to tell the system 'just regenerate all the files', even if I altered romanu.mf and re-created a PDF via a .TeX file. I want to avoid if possible all the manual command lines.

I tried mf and initexmf and various command lines but couldn't find such a shortcut. I don't want to edit externally a TTF or OTF, as I think defining fonts with a programming language is great.

any idea?

Ange
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    don't modify the computer modern sources without changing the file names. – David Carlisle Feb 24 '14 at 21:54
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    The basic steps (say to generate cmr10) is mf cmr10 (which will make the tfm and gf file then gftopk to make pk files. Note you end up with bitmap fonts not ttf or OTF – David Carlisle Feb 24 '14 at 21:56
  • @DavidCarlisle why is changing the file name required? for licence or functionality reasons ? – Ange Feb 25 '14 at 07:41
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    Licence. It is the one stipulation that Knuth places on his work. Also of course functionality, a major promise of Tex and the computer modern fonts is that it works the same everywhere, and for all time, you can write a document now and process it in a hundred years. That doesn't work if variant forms are produced under the same name. – David Carlisle Feb 25 '14 at 08:21

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