OFM2OPL(1)                  General Commands Manual                 OFM2OPL(1)

NAME
       ofm2opl - convert Omega and TeX font metric (ofm) files to property
       list (opl) files

SYNOPSIS
       ofm2opl [options] ofmname[.ofm] [oplfile[.opl]]

DESCRIPTION
       ofm2opl translates a binary Omega font metrics (.ofm) file, ofmname,
       into a human-readable property-list format (.opl).  The program writes
       to standard output (by default) or to a file specified as oplfile.

       The program also works with TeX font metric (.tfm) files, producing TeX
       property list (.pl) 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 ovf2ovp(1).

SEE ALSO
       omega(1), aleph(1), opl2ofm(1), ovf2ovp(1), ovp2ovf(1), pltotf(1),
       tftopl(1).

AUTHOR
       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 Omega's extended font metric files (.ofm) were
       added by John Plaice in December 1995 and January 1996, resulting in
       the present program.

       ofm2opl was 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. 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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