tds: Non-font Metafont files

 
 3.3 Non-font Metafont files
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 Most Metafont input files are font programs or parts of font programs
 and are thus covered by the previous section. However, a few non-font
 input files do exist. Such files shall be stored in:
 
      texmf/metafont/PACKAGE/
 
    `PACKAGE' is the name of a Metafont package (for example, `mfpic').
 
    The TDS reserves the following `PACKAGE' names:
 
    * `base', for the standard Metafont macro files as described in `The
      Metafontbook', such as `plain.mf' and `expr.mf'.
 
    * `local', for local additions. See Section ⇒Local additions.
 
    * `misc', for Metafont packages consisting of only a single file
      (for example, `modes.mf').  An administrator or package maintainer
      may create directories for single-file packages at their
      discretion, instead of using `misc'.