.TH OVP2OVF 1 "8 March 2022" "Web2C 2025/dev"
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.SH "NAME" 
ovp2ovf \- convert a virtual property-list file into a virtual font file and its associated font metric file
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.SH "SYNOPSIS" 
.B ovp2ovf
.RI [ OPTIONS ]
.IR OVPFILE [ \fB.ovp\fP ]
.RI [ OVFFILE [ \fB.ovf\fP ]
.RI [ OFMFILE [ \fB.ofm\fP ]]]
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.SH "DESCRIPTION" 
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\fBovp2ovf\fP translates a human-readable virtual property list (OVP)
file, \fIOVPFILE\fP, into a virtual font (OVF) file, \fIOVFFILE\fP
and its companion font metric (OFM) file, \fIOFMFILE\fP\&.
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The program also works with TeX VP files, producing VF and TFM files\&.
(\fBovp2ovf\fP is based on the WEB source code for \fBvptovf\fP(1)\&.)
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.SH "OPTIONS" 
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.IP "\fB-help\fP" 
display a brief summary of syntax and options 
.IP "\fB-verbose\fP" 
display progress reports
.IP "\fB-version\fP" 
output version information and exit
.IP 
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.SH "FILES" 
.IP "\fIOFMFILE\fP" 
Omega Font Metric file
.IP "\fIOVFFILE\fP" 
Omega Virtual Font file
.IP "\fIOVPFILE\fP" 
Omega Virtual Property List file
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.SH "BUGS" 
.PP 
Email bug reports to <https://lists.tug.org/tex-k>
(mailing list); good to check if the same bug is present in
\fBvptovf\fP(1)\&.
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.SH "SEE ALSO" 
.PP 
\fBomega\fP(1), \fBofm2opl\fP(1), \fBovf2ovp\fP(1),
\fBpltotf\fP(1), \fBtftopl\fP(1), \fBvftovp\fP(1),
\fBvptovf\fP(1)
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.SH "AUTHOR" 
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According to the WEB documentation:
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.RS 
\fBVPtoVF\fP is an extended version of the program \fBPLtoTF\fP,
which is part of the standard TeXware library\&.  \fBOVP2OVF\fP is an
extended version of \fBVPtoVF\fP 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 \fBPLFONT\fP\&.
.RE 
.PP 
The primary authors of Omega were John Plaice and Yannis Haralambous.
Omega (and Aleph) are now maintained as part of TeX Live.
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This manual page was written by C\&.M\&. Connelly for the Debian
GNU/Linux system\&. It is also now maintained as part of TeX Live.