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12.7 \newfont

Synopsis:

     \newfont{cmd}{fontname}

Defines a control sequence \cmd, which must not already be defined, to make fontname be the current font. The file looked for on the system is named fontname.tfm.

This is a low-level command for setting up to use an individual font. More commonly, fonts are defined in families through .fd files.