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

Web2C 2026                      30 January 2026                     OVP2OVF(1)