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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  insted  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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