.TH "ofm2opl" "1" "September 2000" "Omega" "Omega" 
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.SH "NAME" 
ofm2opl \- convert Omega and TeX font-metric files to property-list files
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.SH "SYNOPSIS" 
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.B ofm2opl
.RI [ OPTIONS ]
.IR OFMNAME [ \fB.ofm\fP ]
.RI [ OPLFILE [ \fB.opl\fP ]]
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.SH "DESCRIPTION" 
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\fBofm2opl\fP translates a binary Omega Font Metrics file,
\fIOFMNAME\fP, into a human-readable property-list form\&.  The
program writes to standard output (by default) or to a file specified
as \fIOPLFILE\fP\&.
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The program also works with TeX TFM files, producing TeX PL files\&.
(\fBofm2opl\fP is based on the WEB source code for \fBtftopl\fP(1)\&.)
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.SH "OPTIONS" 
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.IP 
.IP "\fB-charcode-format=\fP\fITYPE\fP" 
output character codes
according to \fITYPE\fP,
which can be either `hex\&'
or `ascii\&'\&.  Default is
`hex\&'\&.  ascii specifes all
ASCII letters and digits;
hex gets you everything
else\&.
.IP 
.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" 
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.IP "\fIOFMNAME\fP" 
an Omega Font Metric file
.IP "\fIOPLFILE\fP" 
an Omega Property List file
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.SH "BUGS" 
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None known, but report any found to <omega@ens\&.fr> (mailing list)\&.  You may also want to
check to see if the same bug is present in \fBpltotf\fP(1)\&.
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.SH "SEE ALSO" 
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\fBomega\fP(1), \fBopl2ofm\fP(1), \fBpltotf\fP(1),
\fBtftopl\fP(1)\&.
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\fIDraft Manual for the Omega System\fP (\fIomega-manual\&.dvi\fP)\&.
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Web page: <http://www\&.gutenberg\&.eu\&.org/omega/>
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.SH "AUTHOR" 
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According to the WEB documentation:
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.RS 
The first \fBTFtoPL\fP program was designed by Leo Guibas in the
summer of 1978\&.  Contributions by Frank Liang, Doug Wyatt, and Lyle
Ramshaw also had a significant effect on the evolution of the present
code\&.
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Extensions for an enhanced ligature mechanism were added by D\&.E\&. Knuth
in 1989\&.
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Extensions to handle extended font metric files (``OFM\&'\&') were added
by John Plaice in December 1995 and January 1996, resulting in the new
program \fBOFM2OPL\fP\&.
.RE 
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The primary authors of Omega are John Plaice
<plaice@cse\&.unsw\&.edu\&.au> and Yannis Haralambous 
<yannis@fluxus-virus\&.com>\&.
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This manual page was written by C\&.M\&. Connelly
<cmc@debian\&.org>, for
the Debian GNU/Linux system\&.  It may be used by other distributions
without contacting the author\&.  Any mistakes or omissions in the
manual page are my fault; inquiries about or corrections to this
manual page should be directed to me (and not to the primary author)\&.