&Non-font METAFONT Files

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Non-font METAFONT Files

FMost METAFONT input files are font programs or parts of font programs %(see the previous section); however a5few non-font input files do exist (plain.mf,:null.mf, expr.mf, and modes.mf, for example).

6The TDS specifies that these files shall be stored in:

0texmf/metafont/package/

9package is the name of a group of related non-font8METAFONT files (for example, the mfpic macros).

0The following package names are reserved:

base is reserved for the standard METAFONT macros as/ described in The METAFONTbook, such as8 plain.mf, expr.mf, and the canonicalf example file io.mf.
misc is reserved for METAFONT packages consisting of only= a single file. One such example is modes.mf.

<files are the names of individual METAFONT files like&plain.mf or null.mf.