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Fonts in figures
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  You can use any font available to TeX and Dvips within a graphics
file by putting a `%*Font:' line in the leading commentary of the file.
Schematically, this looks like:

     %*Font: TFMNAME SCALEDBP DESIGNBP HEX-START:HEX-BITSTRING

  Here is the meaning of each of these elements:

TFMNAME
     The TeX TFM filename, e.g., `cmr10'.  You can give the same
     TFMNAME on more than one `%*Font' line; this is useful when the
     number of characters from the font used needs a longer
     HEX-BITSTRING (see item below) than conveniently fits on one line.

SCALEDBP
     The size at which you are using the font, in PostScript points (TeX
     big points).  72bp = 72.27pt = 1in.

DESIGNBP
     The designsize of the font, again in PostScript points.  This
     should match the value in the TFM file TFMNAME.  Thus, for `cmr10',
     it should be `9.96265'.

HEX-START
     The character code of the first character used from the font,
     specified as two ASCII hexadecimal characters, e.g., `4b' or `4B'
     for `K'.

HEX-BITSTRING
     An arbitrary number of ASCII hexadecimal digits specifying which
     characters following (and including) HEX-START are used.  This is
     treated as a bitmap.  For example, if your figure used the single
     letter `K', you would use `4b:8' for HEX-START and HEX-BITSTRING.
     If it used `KLMNP', you would use `4b:f4'.

  MetaPost's output figures contain lines like this for bitmap fonts
used in a MetaPost label (Note: MetaPost.).