tftopl - convert TeX font metric (tfm) files to property lists
tftopl [
OPTIONS]
tfm_name[
.tfm]
[
pl_name[
.pl]]
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
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.
-
-charcode-format=format
- The argument 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.
- -verbose
- Without this option, tftopl operates silently. With
it, a banner and progress report are printed on stdout.
pltotf(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 and Pavel Curtis originally ported it to Unix.