TFTOPL(1)                   General Commands Manual                  TFTOPL(1)

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 messages 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 default, 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 character 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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