pltotf - convert property list files to TeX font metric (tfm) format
pltotf [
-verbose]
pl_file_name[
.pl]
[
tfm_file_name[
.tfm]]
This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documentation for
this version of TeX can be found in the info file or manual
Web2C: A TeX
implementation.
The
pltotf program translates a (human-oriented) property list file to a
(program-oriented) TeX font metric file. Thus, after editing the property list
file, a TFM file can be generated for use with, for example,
tex(1).
The
pl_file_name is extended with
.pl if it lacks a suffix. No
path searching is done.
If no
tfm_file_name is given, the basename of
pl_file_name with
suffix
.tfm is used; otherwise
tfm_file_name is extended with
.tfm if it lacks a suffix.
Without the
-verbose option,
pltotf operates silently. With it, a
banner and progress report are printed on
stdout.
tftopl(1).
Donald E. Knuth,
TeXware.
Donald E. Knuth,
The Metafontbook, (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
TeXware technical report, available from the TeX Users Group. Howard
Trickey, Pavel Curtis, and Richard Furuta originally ported it to Unix.