## NAME

pltotf - convert property list files to TeX font metric (tfm) format

## SYNOPSIS

pltotf

pl_file_name [ \fB.pl\fP ]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documentation for this version of *(TX can be found in the info file or manual Web2C: A TeX implementation .

The pltotf program translates a (human-oriented) property list file to a (program-oriented) *(TX font metric file. Thus, after editing the property list file, a TFM file can be generated for use with, for example, tex (1).

The pl_file_name is extended with .pl if it lacks a suffix. No path searching is done.

If no tfm_file_name is given, the basename of pl_file_name with suffix .tfm is used; otherwise tfm_file_name is extended with .tfm if it lacks a suffix.

## OPTIONS

Without the -verbose option, pltotf operates silently. With it, a banner and progress report are printed on stdout .

## SEE ALSO

tftopl (1).
Donald E. Knuth, \*(OXware .
Donald E. Knuth, The \*(MFbook , (Volume C of Computers and Typesetting ), Addison-Wesley, 1986, ISBN 0-201-13445-4.

## AUTHORS

Donald E. Knuth wrote the program. It was published as part of the \*(OXware technical report, available from the *(TX Users Group. Howard Trickey, Pavel Curtis, and Richard Furuta originally ported it to Unix.