OVF2OVP(1)

📦 version 2026.0, in alpine 3.24

🦋 OVF2OVP(1) — like, the ovf2ovp manual page, bestie 🦋

okay so real quick, this whole page is from the General Commands Manual for ovf2ovp, and I'm bouta explain it like we're texting at 2am 💅

✨ NAME ✨

ovf2ovp — converts Omega and TeX virtual font (ovf) files into property list (ovp) files. that's it, that's the whole job, and it eats every time 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ovf2ovp [options] ovfname[.ovf] [ofmname[.ofm] [ovpfile[.ovp]]]

look at her go. options first, then the names, and the last three are all optional-ish in that bracket way 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so ovf2ovp takes a virtual font (.ovf) file — that's ovfname — plus its companion font metric (.ofm) file, ofmname, and translates the two of them into a human-readable property-list format (.vpl) ✨

where does it go? standard output by default, bestie. or you can point it at a file by naming it as ovpname. your call 💫

and like, she's versatile too — the program also works with TeX virtual font files (.vf and .tfm), producing TeX virtual property list (.vpl) files. no cap, she does both 😭👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

heads up: peep tex(1) for the deets on how command-line parsing actually works here. iykyk 🔍
  • -charcode-format=type — outputs character codes according to type, which is either hex, octal or ascii. default is hex. and ascii means: use ASCII for letters and digits, hex for literally everything else 💀
  • -char-format=stype — outputs character codes according to stype, either num or ascii. default is num; ascii works just like it does in -charcode-format. and yes, these two options are redundant — they both exist only for historical compatibility, which is giving legacy code energy 🙈
  • -num-format=ntype — outputs numbers according to ntype, either hex or octal; default is hex 🔢
  • -text-format=ttype — outputs coding scheme and family according to ttype, either mixed or upper case; default is mixed 🔤
  • -help — outputs the help message and exits, slay 🫶
  • -verbose — outputs progress reports, so you can watch her work 📢
  • -version — outputs version information and exits ⭐

and fun fact: these are the exact same options as in ofm2opl(1). twins fr fr 👯‍♀️

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

omega(1), aleph(1), ovp2ovf(1), ofm2opl(1), opl2ofm(1), pltotf(1), tftopl(1), vftovp(1), vptovf(1) — go read them, they're all iconic in their own way 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

the original tftopl program was written by D.E. Knuth. the updates for Omega were written by John Plaice and Yannis Haralambous. see also ofm2opl(1) 🧚

this manual page was written by C.M. Connelly for the Debian GNU/Linux system. both the program and the man page are now maintained as part of TeX Live ✨

bug reports and general discussion: https://lists.tug.org/omega — go off, tell them what's wrong, they wanna hear it 🍓

okay that's the whole page!! and for the cute sign-off: this is Web2C 2026, dated 9 January 2026, and honestly? main character energy from start to finish 💖🎀🔥

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