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PLTOTF(1)                              General Commands Manual                             PLTOTF(1)



NAME
       pltotf - convert property list files to TeX font metric (tfm) format

SYNOPSIS
       pltotf [-verbose] pl_file_name[.pl] [tfm_file_name[.tfm]]

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 pltotf program translates a (human-oriented) property list file to  a  (program-oriented)
       TeX font metric file. Thus, after editing the property list file, a TFM file can be generated
       for use with, for example, tex(1).

       The pl_file_name is extended with .pl if it lacks a suffix. No path searching is done.

       If no tfm_file_name is given, the basename of pl_file_name with suffix .tfm is  used;  other‐
       wise tfm_file_name is extended with .tfm if it lacks a suffix.

OPTIONS
       Without the -verbose option, pltotf operates silently.  With it, a banner and progress report
       are printed on stdout.

SEE ALSO
       tftopl(1).
       Donald E. Knuth, TeXware.
       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 TeXware technical report,
       available from the TeX Users Group.  Howard Trickey, Pavel Curtis, and Richard Furuta  origi‐
       nally ported it to Unix.



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