OPL2OFM(1)

✨ OPL2OFM ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because this one's a manual page from the General Commands Manual section and it's literally about opl2ofm 💖

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🎀 NAME 🎀

opl2ofm — convert Omega and TeX property-list files to font-metric files 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

opl2ofm [OPTIONS] OPLFILE[.opl] [OFMFILE[.ofm]]

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so what does opl2ofm actually do? it takes a property-list format file, OPLFILE, and translates it into the binary Omega Font Metric format. slay. ✨

by default the program writes to standard output, or if you pass OFMFILE it writes to that file instead. your call, queen 👑

also!! the program also works with TeX PL files, which means it can produce TeX TFM files. (opl2ofm is based on the WEB source code for pltotf(1).) no cap, that's genuinely iconic 🫶

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -help — shows you a lil brief summary of the syntax and the options, super handy when you're lost 🙈
• -verbose — displays progress reports, so you can watch it do its thing in real time 👀
• -version — outputs version information and then exits. periodt. 💅

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💀 BUGS 💀

found a bug? email bug reports to <https://lists.tug.org/tex-k> (that's the mailing list btw). and ngl, it's a good idea to check if the same bug is present in pltotf(1) first, bestie 🔥

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

omega(1), ofm2opl(1), pltotf(1), tftopl(1).

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

according to the WEB documentation:

The first PLtoTF 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. Extensions for an enhanced ligature mechanism were added by D.E. Knuth in 1989. Extensions to handle extended font metric files (``OFM'') were added by John Plaice in December 1995 and January 1996, resulting in the new program OPL2OFM.

the primary authors of Omega were John Plaice and Yannis Haralambous. Omega (and Aleph) are now maintained as part of TeX Live 🌸

this manual page was written by C.M. Connelly for the Debian GNU/Linux system. it is also now maintained as part of TeX Live 💜

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and that's the whole thing, bestie!! 💖✨ this page is from Web2C 2025, dated 8 March 2022 — ty for coming to my ted talk, mwah 🎀🦋