---
name: "feynmf"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "feynmf"
version: "1.08-14"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/feynmf"
---

# feynmf(1)

Process LaTeX files using FeynMF

## NAME

feynmf - Process LaTeX files using FeynMF

## SYNOPSIS

**feynmf** \[**-hvqncfT**\] \[**-t** *tfm* \[**-t** *tfm* ...\]\] \[**-m** *mode*\]\
        *file* \[*file* ...\]

**feynmf** \[**--help**\] \[**--version**\] \[**--quiet**\] \[**--noexec**\] \[**--clean**\]\
        \[**--force**\] \[**--notfm**\] \[**--tfm** *tfm* \[**--tfm** *tfm* ...\]\]\
        \[**--mode** *mode*\] *file* \[*file* ...\]

## DESCRIPTION

The most complicated part of using the **FeynMF** style appears to be the proper invocation of **Metafont**.  The **feynmf** script provides a convenient front end and will automagically invoke **Metafont** with the proper mode and magnification.  It will also avoid cluttering system font directories and offers an option to clean them.

## OPTIONS

- **-h**, **--help**

  Print a short help text.

- **-v**, **--version**

  Print the version of **feynmf**.

- **-q**, **--quiet**

  Don't echo the commands being executed.

- **-n**, **--noexec**

  Don't execute **LaTeX** or **Metafont**.

- **-c**, **--clean**

  Offer to delete font files that have accidentally been placed in a system directory by the **MakeTeXTFM** and **MakeTeXPK** scripts (these scripts are run by **tex** (and **latex**) in the background).  This option has only been tested with recent versions of UNIX TeX.

- **-f**, **--force**

  Don't ask any questions.

- **-T**, **--notfm**

  Don't try to prepare fake `".tfm"` files for the first run.

- **-t**, **--tfm** *tfm*

  Don't try guess the names of the `".tfm"` files to fake for the first run and use the given name(s) instead.  This option can be useful if our incomplete parsing of the LaTeX input files fails.

- \-**m** *mode*, **--mode** *mode*

  Select the METAFONT mode *mode*.  The default is guessed or `"localfont"` if the guess fails.

- *file*

  Main **LaTeX** input files.

- *file* ...

  Other LaTeX input files that are included by the main file.

## AUTHOR

Thorsten Ohl \<Thorsten.Ohl@Physik.TH-Darmstadt.de\>

## BUGS

The preparation of `".tfm"` files is not foolproof yet, because we can parse **TeX** files only superficially.

This script has only been tested for recent **teTeX** distributions of UNIX **TeX**, though it will probably work with other versions of UNIX **TeX**.  The author will be grateful for portability suggestions, even concerning **Borg** operating systems, for the benefit of those users that are forced to live with DOS or Windows.