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OFM2OPL(27 April 2015)                                  OFM2OPL(27 April 2015)


NAME

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


SYNOPSIS

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


DESCRIPTION

       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).)


OPTIONS

       -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


FILES

       OFMNAME
              an Omega Font Metric file

       OPLFILE
              an Omega Property List file


BUGS

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


SEE ALSO

       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/>


AUTHOR

       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 <plaice@cse.unsw.edu.au>
       and Yannis Haralambous <yannis@fluxus-virus.com>.

       This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly <cmc@debian.org>, 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).

                                  Web2C 2015            OFM2OPL(27 April 2015)

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