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tftopl - convert TeX font metric (tfm) files to property
lists
tftopl [ -charcode-format=format ] [ -verbose ] tfm_name[.tfm]
[ pl_name[.pl] ]
This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive.
The complete documentation for this version of can be found in the info
file or manual Web2C: A TeX implementation.
The tftopl program translates
a (program-oriented) font metric file to a (human-oriented) property list
file. Thus, you can edit the contents of the TFM files, if the font designer
has not done his or her job properly, or if you're encountering strange
difficulties, or if you're just curious. It also serves as a TFM-file validating
program, i.e., if no error messages are given, the input file is correct.
The pl_name is extended with .pl if it lacks a suffix. If pl_name is not
given, standard output is used. Likewise, tfm_name is extended with .tfm
if it lacks a suffix. Also, path searching is done for the .tfm file using
the environment variable TEXFONTS. If that is not set, tftopl uses the
system default.
See tex(1)
for the details of the searching.
The
argument format to -charcode-format specifies how character codes are output
in the PL file. By default, only letters and digits are output using the
C integer code (i.e., in ASCII); the others are output in octal. (Unless
the font's coding scheme starts with TeX math sy or TeX math ex, in which
case all character codes are output in octal.) If format is ascii, all
character codes that correspond to graphic characters, besides the left
and right parentheses, are output in ASCII. Finally, if format is octal,
all character codes are output in octal.
Without the -verbose option, tftopl
operates silently. With it, a banner and progress report are printed on
stdout.
pltotf(1)
,
Donald E. Knuth, Xware.
Donald E. Knuth, The book (Volume C of Computers and Typesetting), Addison-Wesley,
1986, ISBN 0-201-13445-4.
Donald E. Knuth wrote the program. It was
published as part of the Xware technical report, available from the
Users Group. Howard Trickey and Pavel Curtis originally ported it to Unix.
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