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+{ stdenv
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, lib
+, makeWrapper
+, autoreconfHook
+, buildEnv
+, python3
+, fontforge
+, potrace
+, texlive
+}:
+
+/*
+  To use with a texlive distribution, ensure that the desired fonts and
+  the packages kpathsea, t1utils, metafont are available at runtime.
+
+  Possible overrides:
+  - potrace = autotrace
+  - fontforge = ghostscript (limited functionality)
+  - fontforge = null (limited functionality)
+*/
+
+let self = stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "mftrace";
+  version = "1.2.20";
+
+  # https://lilypond.org/download/sources/mftrace/mftrace-1.2.20.tar.gz
+  # is incomplete, fetch repo and use autoconf instead
+  # see https://github.com/hanwen/mftrace/issues/13
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "hanwen";
+    repo = "mftrace";
+    rev = "release/${version}";
+    sha256 = "02ik25aczkbi10jrjlnxby3fmixxrwm2k5r4fkfif3bjfym7nqbc";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ makeWrapper autoreconfHook python3 potrace ];
+
+  buildInputs = [ fontforge potrace ];
+
+  postInstall = ''
+    wrapProgram $out/bin/mftrace --prefix PATH : ${lib.makeBinPath buildInputs}
+  '';
+
+  # experimental texlive.combine support
+  # (note that only the bin/ folder will be combined into texlive)
+  passthru.tlType = "bin";
+  passthru.pkgs = [ self ] ++
+    (with texlive; kpathsea.pkgs ++ t1utils.pkgs ++ metafont.pkgs);
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Scalable PostScript Fonts for MetaFont";
+    longDescription = ''
+      mftrace is a small Python program that lets you trace a TeX bitmap
+      font into a PFA or PFB font (A PostScript Type1 Scalable Font) or
+      TTF (TrueType) font.
+    '';
+    homepage = "https://lilypond.org/mftrace/";
+    license = with licenses; [ gpl2Only mit ];
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ xworld21 ];
+    platforms = platforms.all;
+  };
+}; in self