TFTOPL(1)                                                     General Commands Manual                                                    TFTOPL(1)

NAME

       tftopl - convert TeX font metric (tfm) files to property lists

SYNOPSIS

       tftopl [OPTIONS] tfm_name[.tfm] [pl_name[.pl]]

DESCRIPTION

       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  con-
       tents  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.

OPTIONS

       -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.

SEE ALSO

       pltotf(1),
       Donald E. Knuth, TeX for nroffware.
       Donald E. Knuth, The Metafontbook (Volume C of Computers and Typesetting), Addison-Wesley, 1986, ISBN 0-201-13445-4.

AUTHORS

       Donald E. Knuth wrote the program. It was published as part of the TeX for nroffware technical report, available from the TeX Users  Group.
       Howard Trickey and Pavel Curtis originally ported it to Unix.

Web2C 2012                                                       17 December 1994                                                        TFTOPL(1)