ovf2ovp(1) General Commands Manual ovf2ovp(1)
NAME
ovf2ovp - convert Omega and TeX virtual font (ovf) files to property
list (ovp) files
SYNOPSIS
ovf2ovp [options] ovfname[.ovf] [ofmname[.ofm] [ovpfile[.ovp]]]
DESCRIPTION
ovf2ovp translates a virtual font (.ovf) file, ovfname, and its
companion font metric (.ofm) file, ofmname, into a human-readable
property-list format (.vpl). The program writes to standard output (by
default) or to a file specified as ovpname.
The program also works with TeX virtual font files (.vf and .tfm),
producing TeX virtual property list (.vpl) 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 ofm2opl(1).
SEE ALSO
omega(1), aleph(1), ovp2ovf(1), ofm2opl(1), opl2ofm(1), pltotf(1),
tftopl(1), vftovp(1), vptovf(1)
AUTHOR
The original tftopl program was written by D.E. Knuth. The updates for
Omega were written by John Plaice and Yannis Haralambous. See also
ofm2opl(1).
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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