OFM2OPL(1) General Commands Manual OFM2OPL(1)
NAME
ofm2opl - convert Omega and TeX font-metric files to property-list files
SYNOPSIS
ofm2opl [options] ofmname[.ofm] [oplfile[.opl]]
DESCRIPTION
ofm2opl translates a binary Omega Font Metrics file, ofmname, into a hu-
man-readable property-list form. The program writes to standard output
(by default) or to a file specified as oplfile.
The program also works with TeX TFM files, producing TeX PL files.
OPTIONS
(Same as ovf2ovp).
-charcode-format=type
output character codes according to type, either `hex', `octal'
or `ascii'. Default is `hex'; `ascii' says to use ASCII for let-
ters 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 com-
patibility.)
-num-format=ntype
output numbers according to ntype, either `hex' or `octal'; de-
fault is hex.
-text-format=ttype
output coding scheme and family according to ttype, either
`mixed' or `upper' case; default is mixed.
-help display a brief summary of syntax and options
-verbose
display progress reports
-version
output version information and exit
FILES
OFMNAME
an Omega Font Metric file
OPLFILE
an Omega Property List file
BUGS
Email bug reports to <https://lists.tug.org/tex-k> (mailing list); good
to check if the same bug is present in tftopl(1).
General discussion of Omega (and Aleph) can take place on the
<https://lists.tug.org/omega> mailing list.
SEE ALSO
omega(1), aleph(1), opl2ofm(1), pltotf(1), tftopl(1).
AUTHOR
According to the WEB documentation:
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 extended font metric files (``OFM'') were
added by John Plaice in December 1995 and January 1996, resulting
in the new program OFM2OPL.
ofm2opl is 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. It is also now maintained as part of TeX Live.
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