installing .tfm files

[Jim McCloskey <mcclosk@ling.ucsc.edu>]

|> On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 05:30:18PM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins
|> Esq. wrote: 
|> [.tfm files]
|> > But how in the world do I get latex to recognize these?  I see a
|> > number of places I can put them,
|>
|> Put them in a subdirectory of /usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/tfm/
|> (IIRC) and run texhash as root.

This has worked smoothly for me only if I do in addition:

 append_db DIRECTORY-NAME FONT-FILE-NAME

which, I believe, updates the fonts database. Append-db is a shell
script designed especially for the case in which a new font has been
created,

Jim