PLTOTF(1)

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💖 PLTOTF 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for pltotf — that's the property-list-to-TeX-font-metric girlie, from the General Commands Manual section. she's not like other converters. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

pltotf — convert property list files to TeX font metric (tfm) format 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pltotf [-verbose] pl_file_name[.pl] [tfm_file_name[.tfm]]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so first thing, heads up: this manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. the full, complete, deluxe documentation for this version of TeX lives in the info file or the manual Web2C: A TeX implementation. this page? it's the vibe summary. 🎀

so what does pltotf actually do? she takes a (human-oriented) property list file and translates it into a (program-oriented) TeX font metric file. literally the glow-up pipeline. 💖 so like, after you edit the property list file, you can generate a TFM file and use it with, for example, tex(1). iconic.

here's the deal with the file names, and this part matters:

  • pl_file_name gets extended with .pl if it doesn't already have a suffix. 🌸
  • No path searching is done. like, none. zero. she is not out here hunting for your file. 🙈

and for the output:

  • if no tfm_file_name is given, the basename of pl_file_name with suffix .tfm is used instead. ✨
  • otherwise, tfm_file_name is extended with .tfm if it lacks a suffix.

periodt. 💅

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -verbose — without it, pltotf operates silently, like a true mysterious main character. 🤫 with it? she prints a banner and a progress report on stdout. very "not me narrating my own transformation" energy. 🔥

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

  • tftopl(1). — the reverse icon, we stan a bidirectional duo. 👑
  • Donald E. Knuth, TeXware.
  • Donald E. Knuth, The Metafontbook, (Volume C of Computers and Typesetting), Addison-Wesley, 1986, ISBN 0-201-13445-4.

✨ AUTHORS ✨

Donald E. Knuth wrote the program. it was published as part of the TeXware technical report, available from the TeX Users Group. 🫶

and the original Unix port? that was Howard Trickey, Pavel Curtis, and Richard Furuta. legends only, no cap. 🌈

okay that's the whole page bestie!! 💜 this was Web2C 2025, dated 16 June 2015 — so like, it's giving vintage but she still ate. go convert something cute. mwah. 💋✨🎀

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