outocp(1)

📦 version 2026.0, in alpine 3.24

💅 outocp — ok bestie, let's talk

First things first: this page lives in the General Commands Manual part of your system, and the star of the show is a command called outocp. Grab a snack, hydrate, and let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

outocp — debug an OCP file 💀

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

outocp OCPFILE[.ocp]

That's literally it. You hand it an OCP file, and the .ocp on the end is optional — it'll cope. Iconic behaviour honestly.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so here's the tea ☕ outocp is your debugging bestie for Omega Compiled Translation Process (OCP) files. What does it do? Two things, periodt:

  1. It generates some statistics about the OCP file — numbers, facts, the whole vibe check 📊
  2. Then it runs through all the states</> that the file defines 👑

And what even are Omega Translation Processes, you ask? They're rules — rules used to translate one character set to another, and to choose between characters that have one or more context-sensitive variants. (Yeah that's all we get. Slay.) OTPs could also be used to change the case or the hyphenation of text. Versatile queen, we love her 💅

💀 BUGS 💀

Found a bug? Not cute, not the vibe. Email your bug reports to https://lists.tug.org/tex-k — it's a public mailing list, so everyone sees, no secrets, fr fr 🙈

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Also go peek at https://ctan.org/pkg/omega — doors are open 👀

👑 AUTHOR 👑

mkocp is part of Omega. (Yes, it says mkocp — we don't make the rules 🍓) The primary authors of Omega are John Plaice and Yannis Haralambous — literal icons, no cap.

This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly for the Debian GNU/Linux system. It is now maintained as part of TeX Live 💖

Also just so you know: this whole thing is about the command, not by the command. If you're staring at outocp(1) and wondering who wrote it — now you know. Main character energy from C.M. Connelly, honestly 🌈

And that's a wrap, bestie 🦋 This little beauty ships as part of TeX Live, dated 8 March 2022, sitting pretty in the outocp(1) slot of your manual pages. Go debug something, you got this ✨💜

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