Short: MetaFont 2.71 font generator for TeX.
Type: text/tex
Uploader: Andreas Scherer
Author: Donald E. Knuth

This  is the latest version 2.71 of MetaFont, released by Don Knuth in July
1993 with the advise to `update everything ASAP,' adapted for the Commodore
Amiga.   The complete system was brought to this new version, including the
plain base and the TRAP test for debugging (not included in this package).

MetaFont  is  the name of a highly portable computer font generation system
that reads text files prepared with `programs' which specify the outline of
characters  in  fonts  of  type,  graphical  symbols, or other elements for
printing  high quality documents.  Typesetting systems like TeX make use of
the  font  metric  information  produced by MetaFont and printer drivers or
screen  previewers make use of the pixel information as to where to put the
`ink.'

The package contains all programs necessary for ready-to-go installation of
the MetaFont system.  Included is the complete Computer Modern font library
and  the  fonts  for  the  MetaFont logo, also by Don Knuth.  There are two
versions of the IniMF and VirMF programs, suitable for standard Amigas with
and  without  680X0 acceleration and coprocessors.  A 16-page documentation
in English and German fully describes all details of the package.

This  Amiga  port  was done and completely tested with SAS/C++ version 6.50
and has passed the TRAP test gracefully so that it may be called MetaFont.