## NAME

ovf2ovp - convert a virtual font file and its associated font metric file into property-list format

## SYNOPSIS

ovf2ovp

OVFNAME [ \fB.ovf\fP ]

## DESCRIPTION

ovf2ovp translates a virtual font (OVF) file, OVFNAME, and its companion font metric (OFM) file, OFMNAME, into a human-readable property-list format. The program writes to standard output (by default) or to a file specified as OVPNAME.

The program also works with TeX VF and TFM files, producing TeX VP files. (ovf2ovp is based on the WEB source code for vftovp(1).)

## OPTIONS

\fB-charcode-format=\fP\fITYPE\fP

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.

\fB-help\fP

display a brief summary of syntax and options

\fB-verbose\fP

display progress reports

\fB-version\fP

output version information and exit

## FILES

\fIOVPFILE\fP

Omega Virtual Property List file

\fIOFMNAME\fP

Omega Font Metric file

\fIOVFNAME\fP

Omega Virtual Font file

## BUGS

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

## SEE ALSO

omega(1), ofm2opl(1), ovp2ovf(1), pltotf(1), tftopl(1), vftovp(1), vptovf(1)

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

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

## AUTHOR

According to the WEB documentation:

VFtoVP is an extended version of the program TFtoPL, which is part of the standard tex()ware library. The idea of a virtual font was inspired by the work of David R. Fuchs who designed a similar set of conventions in 1984 while developing a device driver for ArborText, Inc. He wrote a somewhat similar program called AMFtoXPL.

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).