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MFT(1)                                 General Commands Manual                                MFT(1)

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 tan‐
       gle(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 Meta‐
       Post) 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 instead 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.

Web2C 2023                                   27 May 2018                                      MFT(1)