NAME

       ovp2ovf  -  convert  a virtual property-list file into a virtual font file and its associated font metric
       file

SYNOPSIS

       ovp2ovf [OPTIONS] OVPFILE[.ovp] [OVFFILE[.ovf] [OFMFILE[.ofm]]]

DESCRIPTION

       ovp2ovf translates a human-readable virtual property list (OVP) file, OVPFILE, into a virtual font  (OVF)
       file, OVFFILE and its companion font metric (OFM) file, OFMFILE.

       The  program  also  works  with  TeX  VP files, producing VF and TFM files.  (ovp2ovf is based on the WEB
       source code for vptovf(1).)

OPTIONS

       -help  display a brief summary of syntax and options

       -verbose
              display progress reports

       -version
              output version information and exit

FILES

       OFMFILE   Omega Font Metric file

       OVFFILE   Omega Virtual Font file

       OVPFILE   Omega Virtual Property List file

BUGS

       Email bug reports to <https://lists.tug.org/tex-k> (mailing list); good to  check  if  the  same  bug  is
       present in vptovf(1).

SEE ALSO

       omega(1), ofm2opl(1), ovf2ovp(1), pltotf(1), tftopl(1), vftovp(1), vptovf(1)

AUTHOR

       According to the WEB documentation:

              VPtoVF  is  an  extended  version  of  the  program  PLtoTF, which is part of the standard TeXware
              library.  OVP2OVF is an extended version of VPtoVF that allows much larger fonts.  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 PLFONT.

       The  primary  authors  of  Omega  were  John  Plaice  and  Yannis Haralambous.  Omega (and Aleph) are now
       maintained as part of TeX Live.

       This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly for the Debian GNU/Linux system.  It is also now maintained
       as part of TeX Live.

Web2C 2025/dev                                    8 March 2022                                        OVP2OVF(1)