ofm2opl(1) General Commands Manual ofm2opl(1)
NAME
ofm2opl - convert Omega and TeX font metric (ofm) files to property
list (opl) files
SYNOPSIS
ofm2opl [options] ofmname[.ofm] [oplfile[.opl]]
DESCRIPTION
ofm2opl translates a binary Omega font metrics (.ofm) file, ofmname,
into a human-readable property-list format (.opl). The program writes
to standard output (by default) or to a file specified as oplfile.
The program also works with TeX font metric (.tfm) files, producing TeX
property list (.pl) files.
OPTIONS
See tex(1) for details of command-line parsing.
-charcode-format=type
output character codes according to type, either `hex', `octal'
or `ascii'. Default is `hex'; `ascii' says to use ASCII for
letters and digits, hex for all else.
-char-format=stype
output character codes according to stype, either `num' or
`ascii'. Default is `num'; `ascii' as in -charcode-format.
(These two redundant options both exist only for historical
compatibility.)
-num-format=ntype
output numbers according to ntype, either `hex' or `octal';
default is hex.
-text-format=ttype
output coding scheme and family according to ttype, either
`mixed' or `upper' case; default is mixed.
-help output help message and exit
-verbose
output progress reports
-version
output version information and exit
These are the same options as in ovf2ovp(1).
SEE ALSO
omega(1), aleph(1), opl2ofm(1), ovf2ovp(1), ovp2ovf(1), pltotf(1),
tftopl(1).
AUTHOR
The first TFtoPL program was designed by Leo Guibas in the summer of
1978. Contributions by Frank Liang, Doug Wyatt, and Lyle Ramshaw also
had a significant effect on the evolution of the present code.
Extensions for an enhanced ligature mechanism were added by D.E. Knuth
in 1989.
Extensions to handle Omega's extended font metric files (.ofm) were
added by John Plaice in December 1995 and January 1996, resulting in
the present program.
ofm2opl was based on the WEB source code for tftopl(1), although
nowadays it is a link to omfonts, implemented entirely in C.
The primary authors of Omega were John Plaice and Yannis Haralambous.
Omega (and Aleph) are now maintained as part of TeX Live.
This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly for the Debian GNU/Linux
system. Both the program and the man page are now maintained as part of
TeX Live.
Bug reports and general discussion: https://lists.tug.org/omega
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