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- MFT(1) USER COMMANDS MFT(1)
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- NAME
- mft - translate Metafont code to TeX code for prettyprinting
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- SYNOPSIS
- mft mf_file_name[.mf] [-cs] [change_file_name[.ch]]
- [style_file_name[.mft]]
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- DESCRIPTION
- The mft program creates a TeX file from a Metafont 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, by
- Donald Knuth. Special conventions in Metafont comments
- allow you to control things that would not otherwise come
- out right; section 1 of the MFT source program in the
- METAFONTware report explains these rules.
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- The command line has one required file name and two optional
- file names. The required one is a Metafont 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).
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- A file name that doesn't contain a dot is always given an
- extension, either .mf (Metafont) 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; the default
- there is: . See tex(1) for the details of the searching.
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- The output TeX file name is formed by using .tex in place of
- the extension of mf_file_name.
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- FILES
- TeX:inputs/mftmac.tex TeX macros used by mft output.
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- TeX:inputs/plain.mft Default style file.
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- TeX:inputs/cmbase.mft Style file for Computer Modern.
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- SEE ALSO
- mf(1), weave(1)
- Donald Knuth et al., METAFONTware
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- AUTHORS
- Donald 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 METAFONTware technical report, available from the TeX
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