MFT
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 14 December 1993
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NAME
mft - translate Metafont or MetaPost code to TeX code for prettyprinting
SYNOPSIS
mft
[
OPTIONS]
mf_file_name[
.mf|
.mp]
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 Metafont or MetaPost 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 and MetaPost 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
mft
program uses an optional change file (which works just as the change files to
tangle(1)
and
weave(1)
do)
and one or several style files (which are prepended to everything).
If no style file is specified, the style file
plain.mft
for Metafont (or
mplain.mft
for MetaPost) is automatically used.
The
mf_file_name,
optional
change_file_name,
and
style_file_name
files are searched for using the MFINPUTS (for Metafont) or MPINPUTS (for
MetaPost) and MFTINPUTS environment variables if you have set them, or else the
corresponding system defaults.
The output TeX file name is formed by using
.tex
in place of the extension of
mf_file_name.
OPTIONS
- -change=change_file_name[.ch]
-
Apply the change file
change_file_name
to
mf_file_name.
- -metapost
-
Assume
mf_file_name
is a MetaPost source file (this is the default if
mf_file_name
has the extension
.mp).
- -style=style_file_name[.mft]
-
Use the style file
style_file_name
insted of
plain.mft
(or
mplain.mft);
this option can be given more than once.
FILES
- mftmac.tex
-
TeX macros used by
mft
output.
- plain.mft, mplain.mft
-
Default style files.
- 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.,
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.
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- FILES
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- SEE ALSO
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- AUTHORS
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