PPLTOTF(1)                  General Commands Manual                 PPLTOTF(1)

NAME
       ppltotf, uppltotf - Create Japanese pTeX font metric (JFM)

SYNOPSIS
       ppltotf [options] pl_file_name[.pl] [tfm_file_name[.tfm]]

DESCRIPTION
       The ppltotf program translates a Japanese property list (JPL) file to a
       Japanese pTeX font metric (JFM) file.  The resulting JFM file can be
       used with pTeX and e-pTeX.

       The uppltotf program is a Unicode-enabled version of ppltotf.  The
       resulting JFM file can be used with upTeX and e-upTeX.

       In the following sections, we refer to these programs as (u)ppltotf.

       (u)ppltotf is upper compatible with pltotf; if the input PL file is for
       roman fonts, it is translated into an ordinary TeX font metric (TFM)
       file.  The difference between ppltotf and uppltotf lies in the output
       encoding: ppltotf always outputs JIS-encoded JFM; on the other hand,
       uppltotf outputs Unicode-encoded JFM by default.

OPTIONS
       Compared to pltotf, the following option is added to (u)ppltotf.

       -kanji string
              Sets the input Japanese Kanji code.  The string can be one of
              the followings: euc (EUC-JP), jis (ISO-2022-JP),
              sjis (Shift_JIS), utf8 (UTF-8), uptex (UTF-8; uppltotf only).

       When one of euc, jis, sjis or utf8 is specified, both ppltotf and
       uppltotf output a JIS-encoded JFM.  When uptex is specified with
       uppltotf, it outputs a Unicode-encoded JFM.

SEE ALSO
       ptex(1).

AUTHORS
       (u)ppltotf is maintained by Japanese TeX Development Community
       <https://texjp.org>.  For bug reports, open an issue at GitHub
       repository <https://github.com/texjporg/tex-jp-build>, or send an e-
       mail to <issue@texjp.org>.

       This manual page was written by Hironobu Yamashita.

Web2C 2023                       15 March 2019                      PPLTOTF(1)