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-.TH PLTOTF 1 "27 December 1992" "Web2C 2009"
+.TH PLTOTF 1 "27 December 1992" "Web2C 2010/pretest"
.\"=====================================================================
.if n .ds MF Metafont
.if t .ds MF M\s-2ETAFONT\s0
@@ -20,11 +20,9 @@
pltotf \- convert property list files to TeX font metric (tfm) format
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B pltotf
-[
-.B \-verbose
-]
-.I pl_file_name
-.I tfm_file_name
+.RB [ \-verbose ]
+.IR pl_file_name [ \fB.pl\fP ]
+.RI [ tfm_file_name [ \fB.tfm\fP ]]
.\"=====================================================================
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete
@@ -34,16 +32,28 @@ or manual
.PP
The
.B pltotf
-program translates a (human-oriented) \*(WB property list file to a
+program translates a (human-oriented) property list file to a
(program-oriented) \*(TX font metric file. Thus, after editing the property
list file, a TFM file can be generated for use with, for example,
.BR tex (1).
.PP
-Both the
+The
+.I pl_file_name
+is extended with
+.B .pl
+if it lacks a suffix. No path searching is done.
+.PP
+If no
+.I tfm_file_name
+is given, the basename of
.I pl_file_name
-and the
+with suffix
+.B .tfm
+is used; otherwise
.I tfm_file_name
-must be complete; no adding of default extensions or path searching is done.
+is extended with
+.B .tfm
+if it lacks a suffix.
.\"=====================================================================
.SH OPTIONS
Without the