ctan-ann - modes

CTAN package update: modes.mf

2008-02-21T09:38:30Z

Karl Berry  wrote:

> CTAN:fonts/modes/modes.mf has been updated to version 3.8.  All
> distributions that used modes.mf should update as soon as possible.
> 
> Per Don Knuth, this version no longer redefines the Metafont `end'
> primitive; it also no longer defines a `?' macro for help.  Now you can
> say, e.g.,
>   mf '\fontmaking:=1; end'
> and it will work again.
> 
> In order to get the previous behavior, where the coding scheme, font
> family, and so on were output at the end of the run, the Metafont input
> should call the (new) mode_extra_info macro.  Or incorporate the code in
> the font files themselves, as preferred.

the revised file has been installed in ctan fonts/modes/modes.mf

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CTAN update: modes

2020-01-31T06:35:18Z

Karl Berry submitted an update to the

                modes

package.

Version number: 4.1
License type: pd

Summary description: A collection of Metafont mode_def's

Announcement text:This update to modes.mf (the first since 2008) contains no new modes.
What it does contain is a new macro (mode_include_extra_info) to make
it convenient to enabled the inclusion of the so-called Xerox-world

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CTAN update: modes

2023-12-14T10:17:21Z

Karl Berry submitted an update to the

                modes

package.

Version: 4.3 2023-12-12
License: pd

Summary description: A collection of Metafont mode_def’s

Announcement text:This update to modes.mf adds a mode for potrace usage at 7200 dpi,
requested by Hans Hagen and Mikael Sundqvist.


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CTAN update: modes

2026-01-15T02:09:51Z

Karl Berry submitted an update to the
> 
>                 modes
> 
> package.
> 
> Version: 4.4 2026-01-13
> License: pd
> 
> Summary description: A collection of Metafont mode_def’s
> 
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> This tiny update to modes.mf adds an alias "pdf" for "dpdfezzz",
> for simpler use on the Metafont command line.
> 

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