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
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 Computer 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:
@DEFAULT_MF_PATH@
The style file is searched for using the TEXINPUTS
environment variable; its default value is:
@DEFAULT_TEX_PATH@
See tex(1) for the details of the searching.
The output TeX file name is formed by using .tex in place of
the extension 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
@TEXINPUTDIR@/mftmac.tex TeX macros used by mft output.
@TEXINPUTDIR@/plain.mft Default style file.
@TEXINPUTDIR@/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.