Short: MetaFont 2.71 - Create fonts for TeX.
Type: text/tex/
Files: MetaFont_V2.71_U.lha, MetaFont_V2.71_U.readme
Uploader: <scherer@genesis.informatik.rwth-aachen.de@> (Andreas Scherer)
Author: Donald E. Knuth, et.al.



              Welcome to the user's kit for Donald E. Knuth's


                       MetaFont Engine, Release 2.71

                             November 25, 1994


This  Amiga port of MetaFont 2.71 was done by Andreas Scherer.  Please send
complaints,  bug  reports,  adulations,  etc.,  to  me, by snail mail to my
postal  address:  Roland-Strae 16, 52070, Germany,  or preferably by email
to my Internet address:  <scherer@genesis.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>.

This program package is FREEWARE.  All rights are reserved.  No warranty is
given, whether expressed or implied.  Use these programs at your own risk.

This  is an updated version of the MetaFont 2.71 package for the Amiga from
November  1993 (AmiNet) and May 1994 (Meeting Pearls CD).  Included are new
versions  of  the  binaries,  plus  VFtoVP  and  VPtoVF  for "virtual font"
handling.   All  programs  perform  recursive search for include files.  No
longer  included  are the sources for the Computer Modern font family.  You
can find these and many other font sources in the InterNet.

For  detailed information about the contents of this implementation and how
to make use of it, see the LaTeX2e documentation in German or English.

Extract the archive with the command

      > LHa x MetaFont_V2.71_U.lha <destination path>

A  root directory `<destination path>MetaFont' will be created.  You should
assign `MF:' as a shortcut pointing to this root name, so that the programs
work properly.


Happy MetaFonting

Andreas


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    Changes for CD-ROM distribution (made by Georg Hemann 03-dec-94)


For easier working of this Metafont distribution together with PasTeX I've
made some small changes:

- new/changes base files. They now use the PasTeX-modes.mf file.
- add many font input files in MF:inputs
- slightly changes ARexx files in MF:rexx and I've changes a bit the
  directory structure of MF:rexx


Some hints for setting ENV: variables:

setenv CALLMF   MF:rexx/MakeTeXFont.rexx
				// to generate missing fonts immediatly, or
setenv CALLMF   MF:rexx/MakeBatch.rexx
				// to generate a script file, which will
				// generate all missing fonts
				// (Script name: MF:MakeTeXFont.sh)

setenv MFLOGDIR MF:Log		// Logging directory (default T:MFLog)

setenv MFTMPDIR RAM:		// Working directory of the font generation
				// (default T:)


Georg Hemann <hessmann@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>

