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1 perry 1 VPTOVF
2 !!!VPTOVF
3 NAME
4 SYNOPSIS
5 DESCRIPTION
6 OPTIONS
7 SEE ALSO
8 AUTHORS
9 ----
10 !!NAME
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13 vptovf - convert virtual property lists to virtual font metrics
14 !!SYNOPSIS
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17 __vptovf__ [[ __-verbose__ ] ''vpl_name[[.vpl]
18 vfm_name[[.vf] tfm_name[[.tfm]''
19 !!DESCRIPTION
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22 This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete
23 documentation for this version of TEX can be found in the
24 info file or manual ''Web2C: A TeX
25 implementation''.
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28 The __vptovf__ program translates a (human-oriented)
29 property list file to a pair of (program-oriented) files in
30 the VF (virtual font) and TFM (TEX font metric) formats.
31 Thus, a virtual font file can be edited and its exact
32 contents can be displayed mnemonically. New virtual fonts,
33 which map characters as seen by TEX into an arbitrary
34 sequence of low-level typesetting operations, can also be
35 created in this way.
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38 All three filenames, ''vpl_name, vf_name,'' and
39 ''tfm_name,'' are extended with the appropriate suffix,
40 if they lack one.
41 !!OPTIONS
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44 Without the __-verbose__ option, __vptovf__ operates
45 silently. With it, a banner and progress report are printed
46 on ''stdout''.
47 !!SEE ALSO
48
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50 pltotf(1), tftopl(1),
51 vftovp(1).
52 !!AUTHORS
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55 Donald E. Knuth wrote the program, based in part on an idea
56 of David Fuchs, starting with the code for pltotf(1).
57 Karl Berry adapted it for compilation with
58 __web2c__.
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