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ofm2opl - convert Omega and TeX font-metric files to property-list files

ofm2opl [ OPTION... ] OFMNAME[.ofm] [ OPLFILE[.opl] ]

ofm2opl translates a binary Omega Font Metrics file, OFMNAME, into a human-readable property-list form. The program writes to standard output (by default) or to a file specified as OPLFILE.

The program also works with TeX TFM files, producing TeX PL files. (ofm2opl is based on the WEB source code for tftopl(1).)

-charcode-format=TYPE output character codes according to TYPE, which can be either `hex' or `ascii'. Default is `hex'. ascii specifes all ASCII letters and digits; hex gets you everything else.

-help display a brief summary of syntax and options

-verbose display progress reports

-version output version information and exit

OFMNAME an Omega Font Metric file

OPLFILE an Omega Property List file

None known, but report any found to <> (mailing list). You may also want to check to see if the same bug is present in pltotf(1).

omega(1), opl2ofm(1), pltotf(1), tftopl(1).

Draft Manual for the Omega System (omega-manual.dvi).

Web page: <http://www.gutenberg.eu.org/omega/>

According to the WEB documentation:

    The first TFtoPL program was designed by Leo Guibas in the summer of 1978. Contributions by Frank Liang, Doug Wyatt, and Lyle Ramshaw also had a significant effect on the evolution of the present code.

Extensions for an enhanced ligature mechanism were added by D.E. Knuth in 1989.

Extensions to handle extended font metric files (``OFM'') were added by John Plaice in December 1995 and January 1996, resulting in the new program OFM2OPL.

The primary authors of Omega are John Plaice <> and Yannis Haralambous <>.

This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly <>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. 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).