VPTOVF
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 27 December 1992
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NAME
vptovf - convert virtual property lists to virtual font metrics
SYNOPSIS
vptovf
[
-verbose
]
vpl_file_name
vfm_file_name
tfm_file_name
DESCRIPTION
The
vptovf
program translates a (human-oriented) property list file to a pair of
(program-oriented) files in the VF (virtual font) and TFM (TeX font metric)
formats. Thus, a virtual font
file can be edited and its exact contents
can be displayed mnemonically.
New virtual fonts, which map characters as seen by TeX into an arbitrary
sequence of low-level typesetting operations,
can also be created in this way.
All three file names,
vpl_file_name,
vf_file_name,
and
tfm_file_name,
must be complete; no adding of default extensions or path searching is done.
OPTIONS
Without the
-verbose
option,
vptovf
operates silently. With it, a banner and progress report are printed on
stdout.
SEE ALSO
pltotf(1),
tftopl(1),
vftovp(1).
AUTHORS
Donald E. Knuth wrote the program, based in part on an idea of David Fuchs,
starting with the code for
pltotf(1).
Karl Berry adapted it for compilation with
web2c.
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- SEE ALSO
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- AUTHORS
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