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      <title>CTAN package update: modes.mf</title>
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      <pre>Karl Berry &lt;karl at freefriends.org&gt; wrote:

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


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      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:38:30 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>CTAN update: modes</title>
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      <pre>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:<hr>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

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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 06:35:18 +0100</pubDate>
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      <pre>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:<hr>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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      <pre>Karl Berry submitted an update to the
&gt; 
&gt;                 modes
&gt; 
&gt; package.
&gt; 
&gt; Version: 4.4 2026-01-13
&gt; License: pd
&gt; 
&gt; Summary description: A collection of Metafont mode_def’s
&gt; 
&gt; Announcement text:
&gt; ----------------------------------------------------------------------
&gt; 
&gt; This tiny update to modes.mf adds an alias "pdf" for "dpdfezzz",
&gt; for simpler use on the Metafont command line.

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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 02:09:51 +0100</pubDate>
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