.TH PLTOTF 1 "16 June 2015" "Web2C 2024"
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.SH NAME
pltotf \- convert property list files to TeX font metric (tfm) format
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B pltotf
.RB [ \-verbose ]
.IR pl_file_name [ \fB.pl\fP ]
.RI [ tfm_file_name [ \fB.tfm\fP ]]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive.  The complete
documentation for this version of \*(TX can be found in the info file
or manual
.IR "Web2C: A TeX implementation" .
.PP
The
.B pltotf
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
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
with suffix
.B .tfm
is used; otherwise
.I tfm_file_name
is extended with
.B .tfm
if it lacks a suffix.
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.SH OPTIONS
Without the
.B \-verbose
option,
.B pltotf
operates silently.  With it, a banner and progress report are printed on
.IR stdout .
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR tftopl (1).
.br
Donald E. Knuth,
.IR "\*(OXware" .
.br
Donald E. Knuth,
.IR "The \*(MFbook" ,
(Volume C of
.IR "Computers and Typesetting" ),
Addison-Wesley, 1986, ISBN 0-201-13445-4.
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.SH AUTHORS
Donald E. Knuth wrote the program. It was published as
part of the
.I \*(OXware
technical report, available from the \*(TX Users Group.
Howard Trickey, Pavel Curtis, and Richard Furuta originally ported it to
Unix.