ofm2opl(l)                    Omega                    ofm2opl(l)



NAME
       ofm2opl - convert Omega and TeX font-metric files to prop-
       erty-list files


SYNOPSIS
       ofm2opl [ OPTION... ] OFMNAME[.ofm] [ OPLFILE[.opl] ]


DESCRIPTION
       ofm2opl translates a binary Omega Font Metrics file,  OFM-
       NAME,  into a human-readable property-list form.  The pro-
       gram 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(l).)


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>  (mail-
       ing  list).  You may also want to check to see if the same
       bug is present in pltotf(f).


SEE ALSO
       omega(a), opl2ofm(m), pltotf(f), tftopl(l).

       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 sig-
              nificant  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  <yan-
       nis@fluxus-virus.com>.

       This  manual   page   was   written   by   C.M.   Connelly
       <c@eskimo.com>,  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).



Omega                     September 2000               ofm2opl(l)