OVP2OVF(1) General Commands Manual OVP2OVF(1)
NAME
ovp2ovf - convert a virtual property-list file into a virtual font file
and its associated font metric file
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 VP files, producing VF and TFM files.
(ovp2ovf is based on the WEB source code for vptovf(1).)
OPTIONS
-help display a brief summary of syntax and options
-verbose
display 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 to <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), vp-
tovf(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 de-
signed 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. It is also now maintained as part of TeX Live.
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