NAME
ovf2ovp - convert a virtual font file and its associated font metric
file into property-list format
SYNOPSIS
ovf2ovp [ OPTION... ] 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 VP
files. (ovf2ovp is based on the WEB source code for vftovp(1).)
OPTIONS
-charcode-format=TYPE
output character codes according to TYPE, which can be either
`hex' or `ascii'. Default is `hex'. ascii specifes all ASCII
letters and digits; hex gets you everything else.
-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
None known, but report any found to <omega@ens.fr> (mailing list). You
should also check to see if the bug is also in vftovp(1).
SEE ALSO
omega(1), ofm2opl(1), ovp2ovf(1), pltotf(1), tftopl(1), vftovp(1),
vptovf(1)
Draft Manual for the Omega System (omega-manual.dvi).
Web page: <http://www.gutenberg.eu.org/omega/>
AUTHOR
According to the WEB documentation:
VFtoVP is an extended version of the program TFtoPL, which is
part of the standard tex()ware 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.
The primary authors of Omega are John Plaice <plaice@cse.unsw.edu.au>
and Yannis Haralambous <yannis@fluxus-virus.com>.
This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly <cmc@debian.org>, for the
Debian GNU/Linux system. It may be used by other distributions without
contacting the author. Any mistakes or omissions in the manual page
are my fault; inquiries about or corrections to this manual page should
be directed to me (and not to the primary author).