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TeX font metric

font file format used by the TeX typesetting system
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TeX font metric

Summary

TeX font metric is a file format[1]. It draws 5 Wikipedia views per month (file_format category, ranking #122 of 297).[2]

Key Facts

  • TeX font metric's instance of is recorded as file format[3].
  • TeX font metric's developer is recorded as Donald Knuth[4].
  • TeX font metric's has use is recorded as computer font[5].
  • TeX font metric's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05m6_y[6].
  • TeX font metric's described at URL is recorded as https://github.com/tmanderson/dvi-parser/wiki/TFM-Specification[7].
  • TeX font metric's described at URL is recorded as https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb02-1/tb02fuchstfm.pdf[8].
  • TeX font metric's media type is recorded as application/x-tex-tfm[9].
  • TeX font metric's file extension is recorded as tfm[10].
  • TeX font metric's File Format Wiki page ID is recorded as TeX_Font_Metrics[11].

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Designation and Status

TeX font metric's instance of is recorded as file format[3].

Why It Matters

TeX font metric draws 5 Wikipedia views per month (file_format category, ranking #122 of 297).[2]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . svn.apache.org. Retrieved . svn.apache.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). TeX font metric. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/tex-font-metric
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