NAME

       tftopl - convert TeX font metric (tfm) files to property lists

SYNOPSIS

       tftopl [OPTIONS] tfm_name[.tfm] [pl_name[.pl]]

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page is not meant to be exhaustive.  The complete documentation for this version of TeX can
       be found in the info file or manual Web2C: A TeX implementation.

       The tftopl program translates a (program-oriented) font metric file to a (human-oriented)  property  list
       file.  Thus, you can edit the contents of the TFM files, if the font designer has not done his or her job
       properly, or if you're encountering strange difficulties, or if you're just curious.  It also serves as a
       TFM-file validating program, i.e., if no error messages are given, the input file is correct.

       The pl_name is extended with .pl if it lacks a suffix.  If pl_name is not given, standard output is used.
       Likewise,  tfm_name is extended with .tfm if it lacks a suffix.  Also, path searching is done for the TFM
       file using the environment variable TEXFONTS.  If that is not set, tftopl uses the system default.

       See tex(1) for the details of the searching.

OPTIONS

       -charcode-format=format
              The argument format specifies how character codes are output in the PL  file.   By  default,  only
              letters  and digits are output using the C integer code (i.e., in ASCII); the others are output in
              octal.  (Unless the font's coding scheme starts with TeX math sy or TeX math ex, in which case all
              character codes are output in octal.)  If format is ascii, all character codes that correspond  to
              graphic  characters,  besides  the  left  and right parentheses, are output in ASCII.  Finally, if
              format is octal, all character codes are output in octal.

       -verbose
              Without this option, tftopl operates silently.  With it, a banner and progress report are  printed
              on stdout.

SEE ALSO

       pltotf(1),
       Donald E. Knuth, TeXware.
       Donald  E.  Knuth,  The  Metafontbook (Volume C of Computers and Typesetting), Addison-Wesley, 1986, ISBN
       0-201-13445-4.

AUTHORS

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

Web2C 2023                                        16 June 2015                                         TFTOPL(1)