ovf2ovp(1)

ovf2ovp1

Convert omega and tex virtual font (ovf) files to property list (ovp) files

Usage

ovf2ovp [options] ovfname [.ovf] [ofmname [.ofm] [ovpfile [.ovp]]]

Overview

ovf2ovp translates a virtual font (.ovf) file, ovfname, and its companion font metric (.ofm) file, ofmname, into a human-readable property-list format (.vpl). The program writes to standard output (by default) or to a file specified as ovpname.

The program also works with TeX virtual font files (.vf and .tfm), producing TeX virtual property list (.vpl) files.

Options

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

-charcode-format=type

output character codes according to type, either `hex', `octal' or `ascii'. Default is `hex'; `ascii' says to use ASCII for letters and digits, hex for all else.

-char-format=stype

output character codes according to stype, either `num' or `ascii'. Default is `num'; `ascii' as in -charcode-format. (These two redundant options both exist only for historical compatibility.)

-num-format=ntype

output numbers according to ntype, either `hex' or `octal'; default is hex.

-text-format=ttype

output coding scheme and family according to ttype, either `mixed' or `upper' case; default is mixed.

-help

output help message and exit

-verbose

output progress reports

-version

output version information and exit

These are the same options as in ofm2opl(1).

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

-char-format since Debian 9 (Stretch); -charcode-format since Debian 3.0 (Woody); -help since Debian 3.0 (Woody); -num-format since Debian 9 (Stretch); -text-format since Debian 9 (Stretch); -verbose since Debian 3.0 (Woody); -version since Debian 3.0 (Woody).

Author

The original tftopl 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.