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.TH TFTOPL 1 "17 December 1994" "Web2C @VERSION@"
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.\"=====================================================================
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.if t .ds MF M\s-2ETAFONT\s0
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.if t .ds TX \fRT\\h'-0.1667m'\\v'0.20v'E\\v'-0.20v'\\h'-0.125m'X\fP
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.ie t .ds OX \fIT\v'+0.25m'E\v'-0.25m'X\fP for troff
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.el .ds OX TeX for nroff
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.\" the same but obliqued
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.\" BX definition must follow TX so BX can use TX
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.if t .ds BX \fRB\s-2IB\s0\fP\*(TX
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.\" LX definition must follow TX so LX can use TX
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.if t .ds LX \fRL\\h'-0.36m'\\v'-0.15v'\s-2A\s0\\h'-0.15m'\\v'0.15v'\fP\*(TX
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tftopl \- convert TeX font metric (tfm) files to property lists
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.BI \-charcode-format =format
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This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete
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documentation for this version of \*(TX can be found in the info file
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.IR "Web2C: A TeX implementation" .
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program translates a (program-oriented) font metric file to a
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(human-oriented) property list file. Thus, you can edit the contents of
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the TFM files, if the font designer has not done his or her job
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properly, or if you're encountering strange difficulties, or if you're
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just curious. It also serves as a TFM-file validating program, i.e., if
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no error messages are given, the input file is correct.
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is not given, standard output is used. Likewise,
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if it lacks a suffix. Also, path searching is done for the
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using the environment variable TEXFONTS. If that is not set,
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uses the system default.
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for the details of the searching.
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specifies how character codes are output in the PL file. By
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default, only letters and digits are output using the
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integer code (i.e., in ASCII); the others are output in octal. (Unless
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the font's coding scheme starts with
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in which case all character codes are output in octal.) If
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all character codes that correspond to graphic characters, besides the
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left and right parentheses, are output in ASCII. Finally, if
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all character codes are output in octal.
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operates silently. With it, a banner and progress report are printed on
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.IR "Computers and Typesetting" ),
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Addison-Wesley, 1986, ISBN 0-201-13445-4.
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Donald E. Knuth wrote the program. It was published as
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technical report, available from the \*(TX Users Group.
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Howard Trickey and Pavel Curtis originally ported it to Unix.