pltotf - Man Page

pltotf [-verbose] pl_file_name[.pl] [tfm_file_name[.tfm]]

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

The pltotf program translates a (human-oriented) property list file to a (program-oriented) T E X font metric file. Thus, after editing the property list file, a TFM file can be generated for use with, for example, tex(1).

The pl_file_name is extended with .pl if it lacks a suffix. No path searching is done.

If no tfm_file_name is given, the basename of pl_file_name with suffix .tfm is used; otherwise tfm_file_name is extended with .tfm if it lacks a suffix.

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

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

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

chkdvifont(1), mf(1), ofm2opl(1), opl2ofm(1), otftotfm(1), ovf2ovp(1), ovp2ovf(1), tftopl(1), vftovp(1), vptovf(1).