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TFTOPL(1)							     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 documen‐
       tation 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 corre‐
	      spond to graphic characters, besides the left and	 right	paren‐
	      theses,  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  ban‐
	      ner 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 Typeset‐
       ting), 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.

Web2C 2017			 16 June 2015			     TFTOPL(1)
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