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.