1 metafont comment % The (not really) first 20 or so lines from the plain METAFONT base
3 metafont comment % Unlimited copying and redistribution of this file are permitted as long
4 metafont comment % as this file is not modified. Modifications are permitted, but only if
5 metafont comment % the resulting file is not named plain.mf.
7 metafont code string base_name, base_version; base_name="plain"; base_version="2.71";
9 metafont code message "Preloading the plain base, version "&base_version&": preliminaries,";
11 metafont code delimiters (); % this makes parentheses behave like parentheses
12 metafont code def upto = step 1 until enddef; % syntactic sugar
13 metafont code def downto = step -1 until enddef;
14 metafont code def exitunless expr c = exitif not c enddef;
15 metafont code let relax = \; % ignore the word `relax', as in TeX
16 metafont code let \\ = \; % double relaxation is like single
17 metafont code def ]] = ] ] enddef; % right brackets should be loners
18 metafont code def -- = {curl 1}..{curl 1} enddef;
19 metafont code def --- = .. tension infinity .. enddef;
20 metafont code def ... = .. tension atleast 1 .. enddef;
22 metafont code def gobble primary g = enddef; def killtext text t = enddef;