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@@ -18,16 +18,9 @@
tftopl \- convert TeX font metric (tfm) files to property lists
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B tftopl
-[
-.BI \-charcode-format =format
-]
-[
-.B \-verbose
-]
-.I tfm_name[.tfm]
-[
-.I pl_name[.pl]
-]
+.RI [ OPTIONS ]
+.IR tfm_name [ \fB.tfm\fP ]
+.RI [ pl_name [ \fB.pl\fP ]]
.\"=====================================================================
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete
@@ -47,17 +40,15 @@ no error messages are given, the input file is correct.
The
.I pl_name
is extended with
-.I .pl
+.B .pl
if it lacks a suffix.
If
.I pl_name
is not given, standard output is used. Likewise,
.I tfm_name
is extended with
-.I .tfm
-if it lacks a suffix. Also, path searching is done for the
-.I .tfm
-file
+.B .tfm
+if it lacks a suffix. Also, path searching is done for the TFM file
using the environment variable TEXFONTS. If that is not set,
.B tftopl
uses the system default.
@@ -67,10 +58,10 @@ See
for the details of the searching.
.\"=====================================================================
.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+.BI \-charcode-format= format
The argument
.I format
-to
-.B \-charcode-format
specifies how character codes are output in the PL file. By
default, only letters and digits are output using the
.B C
@@ -90,9 +81,9 @@ is
.BR octal ,
all character codes are output in octal.
.PP
-Without the
+.TP
.B \-verbose
-option,
+Without this option,
.B tftopl
operates silently. With it, a banner and progress report are printed on
.IR stdout .