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.TH MFT 1 8/15/90
.SH NAME
mft \- translate Metafont code to TeX code for prettyprinting
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B mft
mf_file_name[.mf] [-cs] [change_file_name[.ch]] [style_file_name[.mft]]
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.I 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
.IR Computer Modern Typefaces ,
by Donald Knuth.
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
.I M\s-2ETAFONT\s0ware
report explains these rules.
.PP
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
.BR tangle (1)
and
.BR weave (1)
do)
and an optional style file (which is prepended to everything).
.PP
A file name that doesn't contain a dot is always given an extension,
either
.I .mf
(Metafont) or 
.I .ch
(change) or
.I .mft
(style). If no style file is specified, the style file
.I plain.mft
is automatically used. The 
.I change_file_name
is not searched for using any paths. The 
.I .mf
file is searched for
using the MFINPUTS environment variable if you have set it, or else the
system default:
.BR @MFINPUTS@ .
The style file
is searched for using the TEXINPUTS environment variable; the default
there is:
.BR @TEXINPUTS@ .
See
.BR tex (1)
for the details of the searching.
.PP
The output TeX file name is formed by using 
.I .tex
in place of the extension of
.IR mf_file_name .
.SH FILES
.TP 2.5i
@TEXINPUTDIR@/mftmac.tex
TeX macros used by\fB mft\fR output.
.TP
@TEXINPUTDIR@/plain.mft
Default style file.
.TP
@TEXINPUTDIR@/cmbase.mft
Style file for Computer Modern.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR mf (1),
.BR weave (1)
.br
Donald Knuth et al.,
.I METAFONTware
.SH AUTHORS
Donald Knuth wrote the program, and he ported it to Unix with the help of
Pierre MacKay and the Unix port of 
.I weave
by Howard Trickey and Pavel Curtis.
The program is published in the
.I M\s-2ETAFONT\s0ware
technical report, available from the TeX Users Group.