PLTOTF(1)                   General Commands Manual                  PLTOTF(1)



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

SYNOPSIS
       pltotf [-verbose] pl_file_name[.pl] [tfm_file_name[.tfm]]

DESCRIPTION
       This  manual page is not meant to be exhaustive.  The complete documen-
       tation for this version of TeX 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) TeX font metric  file.  Thus,  after  editing  the
       property list file, a TFM file can be generated for use with, for exam-
       ple, 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 ban-
       ner and progress report are printed on stdout.

SEE ALSO
       tftopl(1).
       Donald E. Knuth, TeX for nroffware.
       Donald E. Knuth, The Metafontbook, (Volume C of Computers and  Typeset-
       ting), Addison-Wesley, 1986, ISBN 0-201-13445-4.

AUTHORS
       Donald  E. Knuth wrote the program. It was published as part of the TeX
       for nroffware technical report, available from  the  TeX  Users  Group.
       Howard  Trickey,  Pavel Curtis, and Richard Furuta originally ported it
       to Unix.



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