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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 contents 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 mes‐
       sages 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 de‐
              fault, 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  charac‐
              ter 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, 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 and Pavel Curtis originally ported it  to
       Unix.



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