ovp2ovf(1) General Commands Manual ovp2ovf(1)
NAME
ovp2ovf - convert Omega and TeX virtual property list (ovp) files to
virtual font metric (ovf) files
SYNOPSIS
ovp2ovf [options] ovpfile[.ovp] [ovffile[.ovf] [ofmfile[.ofm]]]
DESCRIPTION
ovp2ovf translates a human-readable virtual property list (.ovp) file,
ovpfile, into a virtual font (.ovf) file, ovffile and its companion
font metric (.ofm) file, ofmfile.
The program also works with TeX virtual property list (.vpl) files,
producing TeX virtual fonts (.vf and .tfm).
OPTIONS
-help output help message and exit
-verbose
output progress reports
-version
output version information and exit
FILES
OFMFILE
Omega Font Metric file
OVFFILE
Omega Virtual Font file
OVPFILE
Omega Virtual Property List file
BUGS
Email bug reports via https://lists.tug.org/tex-k (mailing list); good
to check if the same bug is present in vptovf(1).
SEE ALSO
omega(1), ofm2opl(1), ovf2ovp(1), pltotf(1), tftopl(1), vftovp(1),
vptovf(1)
AUTHOR
According to the WEB documentation:
VPtoVF is an extended version of the program PLtoTF, which is
part of the standard TeXware library. OVP2OVF is an extended
version of VPtoVF that allows much larger fonts. The idea of a
virtual font was inspired by the work of David R. Fuchs who
designed a similar set of conventions in 1984 while developing a
device driver for ArborText, Inc. He wrote a somewhat similar
program called PLFONT.
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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