ovp2ovf(1)

ovp2ovf1

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

Usage

ovp2ovf [options] ovpfile [.ovp] [ovffile [.ovf] [ofmfile [.ofm]]]

Overview

ovp2ovf translates a human-readable virtual property list (.ovp) file, ovpfile, into a virtual font (.ovf) file, ovffile and its companion font metric (.ofm) file, ofmfile.

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

Options

-help

output help message and exit

-verbose

output progress reports

-version

output version information and exit

Files

OFMFILE

Omega Font Metric file

OVFFILE

Omega Virtual Font file

OVPFILE

Omega Virtual Property List file

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).

Bugs

Email bug reports via https://lists.tug.org/tex-k (mailing list); good to check if the same bug is present in vptovf(1).

Author

According to the WEB documentation:

VPtoVF is an extended version of the program PLtoTF, which is part of the standard TeXware library. OVP2OVF is an extended version of VPtoVF that allows much larger fonts. The idea of a virtual font was inspired by the work of David R. Fuchs who designed a similar set of conventions in 1984 while developing a device driver for ArborText, Inc. He wrote a somewhat similar program called PLFONT.

The primary authors of Omega were John Plaice and Yannis Haralambous. Omega (and Aleph) are now maintained as part of TeX Live.

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.