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MFT
!!!MFT
NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
FILES
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS
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!!NAME


mft - translate Metafont code to TeX code for prettyprinting
!!SYNOPSIS


__mft__ ''mf_file_name[[.mf]'' [[ [[ __-c__ ] or [[
''change_file_name[[.ch]'' ] ] [[ [[ __-s__ ] or [[
''style_file_name[[.mft]'' ] ]
!!DESCRIPTION


This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete
documentation for this version of TEX can be found in the
info file or manual ''Web2C: A TeX
implementation''.


The __mft__ program creates a TEX file from a M
ETAFONT program. It takes appropriate care of
typographic details like page layout and the use of
indentation, italics, boldface, etc., as illustrated in the
book ''Computer Modern Typefaces''. Special conventions
in M ETAFONT comments allow you to control
things that would not otherwise come out right; section 1 of
the MFT source program in the ''M ETAFONT
ware'' report explains these rules.


The command line has one required file name and two optional
file names. The required one is a M ETAFONT
source file; there is also an optional change file (which
works just as the change files to tangle(1) and
weave(1) do) and an optional style file (which is
prepended to everything).


A file name that doesn't contain a dot is always given an
extension, either ''.mf'' (M ETAFONT ) or
''.ch'' (change) or ''.mft'' (style). If no style file
is specified, the style file ''plain.mft'' is
automatically used. The ''change_file_name'' is not
searched for using any paths. The ''.mf'' file is
searched for using the MFINPUTS environment variable if you
have set it, or else the system default. The style file is
searched for using the TEXINPUTS environment variable. See
tex(1) for the details of the searching.


The output TEX file name is formed by using ''.tex'' in
place of the extension of ''mf_file_name''.
!!OPTIONS


Specify command-line options __-c__ to suppress the
reading of a change file, and __-s__ to suppress the
reading of a style file.
!!FILES


''mftmac.tex''


TEX macros used by __mft__ output.


''plain.mft''


Default style file.


''cmbase.mft''


Style file for Computer Modern.
!!SEE ALSO


mf(1), weave(1).
Donald E. Knuth, ''Computer Modern Typefaces'' (Volume E
of ''Computers and Typesetting''), Addison-Wesley, 1986,
ISBN 0-201-13446-2.
Donald E. Knuth et al., ''M ETAFONT
ware''.
!!AUTHORS


Donald E. Knuth wrote the program, and he ported it to Unix
with the help of Pierre !MacKay and the Unix port of
__weave__ by Howard Trickey and Pavel Curtis. The program
is published in the ''M ETAFONT ware''
technical report, available from the TEX Users
Group.
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