mft1

Usage

Overview

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 by Donald Knuth.

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 and the mft section in the Web2C manual explain 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 used. These files are specified via the options below.

The source_file, as well as any change and style 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 source_file.

Options

See tex(1) for details of command-line parsing.

-change=change_file[.ch]

Apply the change file change_file to mf_file.

-metapost

Consider source_file to be a MetaPost source file; this is the default if mf_file has the extension .mp.

-style=style_file[.mft]

Use the style file style_file instead of plain.mft or mplain.mft; this option can be given more than once.

The standard -help and -version options are also supported.

Files

mftmac.tex, mptmac.tex

TeX macros used by the output from mft for Metafont and MetaPost input, respectively.

plain.mft, mplain.mft

Default style files.

cmbase.mft

Style file for Computer Modern.

e.mft

Style file for Knuth's Volume E: Computer Modern Typefaces.