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## 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=
              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=
              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=
              output numbers according to _ntype_, either `hex' or `octal'; default is hex.

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

### -help

### -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)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vftovp/1/markdown).  General discussion of Omega (and Aleph) can take place  on  the
       <<http://lists.tug.org/omega>> mailing list.

## SEE ALSO
       [**omega**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/omega/1/markdown), [**aleph**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/aleph/1/markdown), [**ofm2opl**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/ofm2opl/1/markdown), [**ovp2ovf**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/ovp2ovf/1/markdown), [**pltotf**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pltotf/1/markdown), [**tftopl**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/tftopl/1/markdown), [**vftovp**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vftovp/1/markdown), [**vptovf**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vptovf/1/markdown)

## 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)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vftovp/1/markdown), 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@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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