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MFT(1)									MFT(1)

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
       This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive.	The complete  documen‐
       tation  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 program.   It	 takes
       appropriate care of typographic details like page layout and the use of
       indentation, italics, boldface, etc., as illustrated in the  book  Com‐
       puter 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.  The style file is searched for using
       the TEXINPUTS environment variable.  See tex(1) for the details of  the
       searching.

       The output TeX file name is formed by using .tex in place of the exten‐
       sion 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
       mftmac.tex
	      TeX macros used by mft output.

       plain.mft
	      Default style file.

       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 7.5.4		       14 December 1993				MFT(1)
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