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.TH OPL2OFM 1 "8 March 2022" "Web2C @VERSION@"
.SH "NAME"
opl2ofm \- convert Omega and TeX property-list files to font-metric files
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.B opl2ofm
.RI [ OPTIONS ]
.IR OPLFILE [ \fB.opl\fP ]
.RI [ OFMFILE [ \fB.ofm\fP ]]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
\fBopl2ofm\fP translates a property-list format file, \fIOPLFILE\fP,
into the binary Omega Font Metric format.
The program writes to standard output
(by default)
or to a file specified as \fIOFMFILE\fP.
.PP
The program also works with TeX PL files, producing TeX TFM files.
(\fBopl2ofm\fP is based on the WEB source code for \fBpltotf\fP(1).)
.SH "OPTIONS"
.IP "\fB\-help\fP"
display a brief summary of syntax and options
.IP "\fB\-verbose\fP"
display progress reports
.IP "\fB\-version\fP"
output version information and exit
.SH "BUGS"
Email bug reports to <https://lists.tug.org/tex-k>
(mailing list); good to check if the same bug is present in
\fBpltotf\fP(1).
.SH "SEE ALSO"
\fBomega\fP(1), \fBofm2opl\fP(1), \fBpltotf\fP(1),
\fBtftopl\fP(1).
.SH "AUTHOR"
According to the WEB documentation:
.PP
.RS
The first \fBPLtoTF\fP 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.
.PP
Extensions for an enhanced ligature mechanism were added by D.E.\& Knuth
in 1989.
.PP
Extensions to handle extended font metric files
(``OFM\&'\&')
were added by John Plaice in December 1995 and January 1996,
resulting in the new program \fBOPL2OFM\fP.
.RE
.PP
The primary authors of Omega were John Plaice and Yannis Haralambous.
Omega (and Aleph) are now maintained as part of TeX Live.
.PP
This manual page was written by C.M.\& Connelly for the Debian
GNU/Linux system.
It is also now maintained as part of TeX Live.
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