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 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 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.

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