modes – A col­lec­tion of Meta­font mode_def's

The modes file col­lects all known Meta­font modes for print­ing or dis­play de­vices, of what­ever print­ing tech­nol­ogy. Spe­cial pro­vi­sion is made for write-white print­ers, and a ‘land­scape’ mode is avail­able, for mak­ing suit­able fonts for print­ers with pix­els whose as­pect is non-square.
The file also pro­vides def­i­ni­tions that make \spe­cials iden­ti­fy­ing the mode in Meta­font’s GF out­put, and put cod­ing in­for­ma­tion and other Xerox-world in­for­ma­tion in the TFM file.