OVP2OVF(1)

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version 77830 · 7 versions
, in alpine 3.24, fedora 44, opensuse-leap 16.0

💖 OVP2OVF(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is a General Commands Manual page for ovp2ovf, and honestly? it's giving "tiny utility, huge main character energy." let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

ovp2ovf — convert a virtual property-list file into a virtual font file and its associated font metric file

like. that's the whole vibe. it takes one thing, makes two things. slay. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ovp2ovf [OPTIONS] OVPFILE[.ovp] [OVFFILE[.ovf] [OFMFILE[.ofm]]]

notice how the last two are optional and nested like little matryoshka dolls 🎀 the brackets are doing the most, and honestly, they've earned it.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea, bestie: ovp2ovf translates a human-readable virtual property list (OVP) file — that's OVPFILE — into a virtual font (OVF) file, OVFFILE, plus its companion font metric (OFM) file, OFMFILE. two for the price of one, no cap. 👑

and the program also works with TeX VP files, producing VF and TFM files. like, it's multilingual, it's versatile, it's that girl. ✨

ngl, ovp2ovf is based on the WEB source code for vptovf(1). that's the lore. 📜

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -help — display a brief summary of syntax and options (your lil cheat sheet, fr fr)
  • -verbose — display progress reports (for the girlies who need to know everything that's happening, we see you 👀)
  • -version — output version information and exit (a quick lil "hi, this is me, bye")

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • OFMFILE — Omega Font Metric file
  • OVFFILE — Omega Virtual Font file
  • OVPFILE — Omega Virtual Property List file

three files, one destiny, iykyk 🌈

💀 BUGS 💀

found a bug? email bug reports to <https://lists.tug.org/tex-k> (mailing list). it's also a good idea to check if the same bug is present in vptovf(1) — because sharing is caring, and bugs love company 😭

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

omega(1), ofm2opl(1), ovf2ovp(1), pltotf(1), tftopl(1), vftovp(1), vptovf(1)

the whole friend group, assembled. go read their pages too, bestie 🫶

👑 AUTHOR 👑

according to the WEB documentation:

VPtoVF is an extended version of the program PLtoTF, which is part of the standard TeXware library. OVP2OVF is an extended version of VPtoVF that allows much larger fonts. The idea of a virtual font was inspired by the work of David R. Fuchs who designed a similar set of conventions in 1984 while developing a device driver for ArborText, Inc. He wrote a somewhat similar program called PLFONT.

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. 💜

okay that's the whole page!! and for the lil sign-off: this beauty is Web2C 2025, dated 8 March 2022. iconic behavior, honestly. go convert some fonts, bestie 💖✨🎀

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