OVF2OVP(1) General Commands Manual OVF2OVP(1)
NAME
ovf2ovp - convert virtual font file and associated font metrics to prop-
erty-list format
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. The program writes to standard output (by default) or to a file
specified as ovpname.
The program also works with TeX VF and TFM files, producing TeX VPL
files.
OPTIONS
(Same as ofm2opl).
-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
ovpfile Omega Virtual Property List file
ofmname Omega Font Metric file
ovfname Omega Virtual Font file
BUGS
Email bug reports to <https://lists.tug.org/tex-k> (mailing list); good
to check if the same bug is present in vftovp(1).
General discussion of Omega (and Aleph) can take place on the
<http://lists.tug.org/omega> mailing list.
SEE ALSO
omega(1), aleph(1), ofm2opl(1), ovp2ovf(1), pltotf(1), tftopl(1),
vftovp(1), vptovf(1)
AUTHOR
According to the WEB documentation:
VFtoVP is an extended version of the program TFtoPL, which is
part of the standard TeXware library. 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
AMFtoXPL.
Thus, ovf2ovp is based on the WEB source code for vftovp(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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