opl2ofm(1)

opl2ofm1

Convert omega and tex property list (opl) files to font metric (ofm) files

Usage

opl2ofm [options] oplfile [.opl] [ofmfile [.ofm]]

Overview

opl2ofm translates a human-readable property-list format file (.opl), oplfile, into the binary Omega font metrics format (.ofm). The program writes to standard output (by default) or to a file specified as ofmfile.

The program also works with TeX property list files, producing TeX font metric (.tfm) files.

Options

See tex(1) for details of command-line parsing.

-help

output help message and exit

-verbose

output progress reports

-version

output version information and exit

Releases

16 releases since Debian 2.0 (Hamm); the text changed 11 times.

  1. 2.0–2.1
  2. 2.2
  3. 3.0
  4. 3.1
  5. 4.0–6.0
  6. 7–8
  7. 9
  8. 10
  9. 11
  10. 12
  11. 13
  12. Arch

-help since Debian 3.0 (Woody); -verbose since Debian 3.0 (Woody); -version since Debian 3.0 (Woody).

Author

The original pltotf program was written by D.E. Knuth. The updates for Omega were written by John Plaice and Yannis Haralambous. See also ofm2opl(1).

This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly for the Debian GNU/Linux system. Both the program and the man page are now maintained as part of TeX Live.

Bug reports and general discussion: https://lists.tug.org/omega

From texlive-doc 2026.1-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.