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 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. The style file is searched
for using the TEXINPUTS environment variable. 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.