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OVF2OVP(1)                             General Commands Manual                            OVF2OVP(1)



NAME
       ovf2ovp - convert virtual font file and associated font metrics to property-list format

SYNOPSIS
       ovf2ovp [options] ovfname[.ovf] [ofmname[.ofm] [ovpfile[.ovp]]]

DESCRIPTION
       ovf2ovp  translates  a  virtual font (OVF) file, ovfname, and its companion font metric (OFM)
       file, ofmname, into a human-readable property-list format.  The program  writes  to  standard
       output (by default) or to a file specified as ovpname.

       The program also works with TeX VF and TFM files, producing TeX VPL files.

OPTIONS
       (Same as ofm2opl).

       -charcode-format=type
              output  character  codes according to type, either `hex', `octal' or `ascii'.  Default
              is `hex'; `ascii' says to use ASCII for letters and digits, hex for all else.

       -char-format=stype
              output character codes according to stype, either `num' or `ascii'. Default is  `num';
              `ascii' as in -charcode-format.  (These two redundant options both exist only for his‐
              torical compatibility.)

       -num-format=ntype
              output numbers according to ntype, either `hex' or `octal'; default is hex.

       -text-format=ttype
              output coding scheme and family according to ttype, either `mixed'  or  `upper'  case;
              default is mixed.

       -help  display a brief summary of syntax and options

       -verbose
              display progress reports

       -version
              output version information and exit

FILES
       ovpfile
              Omega Virtual Property List file

       ofmname
              Omega Font Metric file

       ovfname
              Omega Virtual Font file

BUGS
       Send  bug  reports to <http://lists.tug.org/tex-k> (mailing list); may also check if the same
       bug is present in vftovp(1).  General discussion of Omega (and Aleph) can take place  on  the
       <http://lists.tug.org/omega> mailing list.

SEE ALSO
       omega(1), aleph(1), ofm2opl(1), ovp2ovf(1), pltotf(1), tftopl(1), vftovp(1), vptovf(1)

AUTHOR
       According to the WEB documentation:

              VFtoVP  is  an  extended  version of the program TFtoPL, which is part of the standard
              TeXware library.  The idea of a virtual font was inspired by  the  work  of  David  R.
              Fuchs  who  designed  a  similar  set of conventions in 1984 while developing a device
              driver for ArborText, Inc.  He wrote a somewhat similar program called AMFtoXPL.

       Thus, ovf2ovp is based on the WEB source code for vftovp(1), although nowadays it is  a  link
       to omfonts, implemented entirely in C.

       The  primary  authors of Omega are John Plaice and Yannis Haralambous.  Omega (and Aleph) are
       now maintained as part of TeX Live.

       This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly <cmc AT debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux sys‐
       tem.   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).



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