MFT(1) MFT(1)
14 December 1993
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
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. 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.
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).
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:
.:!!/opt/teTeX/texmf/metafont//:!!/opt/teTeX/texmf/fonts/source//:/var/tmp/texfonts/source//
The style file is searched for using the TEXINPUTS environment
variable; its default value is:
.:!!/opt/teTeX/texmf/tex//
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
/opt/teTeX/texmf/tex/plain/base/mftmac.tex TeX macros used by mft
output.
/opt/teTeX/texmf/mft/plain.mft Default style file.
/opt/teTeX/texmf/mft/cmbase.mft Style file for Computer
Modern.
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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., Metafontware.
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 Metafontware technical
report, available from the TeX Users Group.
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