ofm2opl(1) Omega ofm2opl(1)NAMEofm2opl - convert Omega and TeX font-metric files to property-list
files
SYNOPSISofm2opl [ OPTION... ] OFMNAME[.ofm] [ OPLFILE[.opl] ]
DESCRIPTIONofm2opl translates a binary Omega Font Metrics file, OFMNAME, into a
human-readable property-list form. The program writes to standard out‐
put (by default) or to a file specified as OPLFILE.
The program also works with TeX TFM files, producing TeX PL files.
(ofm2opl is based on the WEB source code for tftopl(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
OFMNAME
an Omega Font Metric file
OPLFILE
an Omega Property List file
BUGS
None known, but report any found to <omega@ens.fr> (mailing list). You
may also want to check to see if the same bug is present in pltotf(1).
SEE ALSOomega(1), opl2ofm(1), pltotf(1), tftopl(1).
Draft Manual for the Omega System (omega-manual.dvi).
Web page: <http://www.gutenberg.eu.org/omega/>
AUTHOR
According to the WEB documentation:
The first TFtoPL program was designed by Leo Guibas in the sum‐
mer of 1978. Contributions by Frank Liang, Doug Wyatt, and Lyle
Ramshaw also had a significant effect on the evolution of the
present code.
Extensions for an enhanced ligature mechanism were added by D.E.
Knuth in 1989.
Extensions to handle extended font metric files (``OFM'') were
added by John Plaice in December 1995 and January 1996, result‐
ing in the new program OFM2OPL.
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).
Omega September 2000 ofm2opl(1)