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6 mft - translate Metafont or MetaPost code to TeX code for prettyprin‐
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10 mft [OPTIONS] mf_file_name[.mf|.mp]
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13 This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documen‐
14 tation for this version of TeX can be found in the info file or manual
15 Web2C: A TeX implementation.
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17 The mft program creates a TeX file from a Metafont or MetaPost program.
18 It takes appropriate care of typographic details like page layout and
19 the use of indentation, italics, boldface, etc., as illustrated in the
20 book Computer Modern Typefaces. Special conventions in Metafont and
21 MetaPost comments allow you to control things that would not otherwise
22 come out right; section 1 of the MFT source program in the Metafontware
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25 The mft program uses an optional change file (which works just as the
26 change files to tangle(1) and weave(1) do) and one or several style
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28 fied, the style file plain.mft for Metafont (or mplain.mft for Meta‐
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31 The mf_file_name, optional change_file_name, and style_file_name files
32 are searched for using the MFINPUTS (for Metafont) or MPINPUTS (for
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62 mf(1), weave(1).
63 Donald E. Knuth, Computer Modern Typefaces (Volume E of Computers and
64 Typesetting), Addison-Wesley, 1986, ISBN 0-201-13446-2.
65 Donald E. Knuth et al., Metafontware.
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68 Donald E. Knuth wrote the program, and he ported it to Unix with the
69 help of Pierre MacKay and the Unix port of weave by Howard Trickey and
70 Pavel Curtis. The program is published in the Metafontware technical
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