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.TH TFTOPL 1 1/14/91
.SH NAME
tftopl - convert font metric (tfm) files to property list format
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B tftopl
[-verbose] tfm_file_name [pl_file_name]
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.I tftopl
program translates a (program-oriented) font metric file to a
(human-oriented) property list file.  Thus, you can edit the contents of
the TFM files, if the font designer has not done his or her job
properly, or if you're encountering strange difficulties, or if you're
just curious.  It also serves as a TFM-file validating program,i.e., if
no error messages are given, the input file is correct.
.PP
The
.I pl_file_name
must be complete. No adding of default extensions or path searching is
done.  If the
.I pl_file_name
is not given, standard output is used. The
.IR tfm_file_name ,
on the other hand, is searched for using the environment variable
TEXFONTS.  See 
.BR tex (1)
for the details of the searching.
If TEXFONTS is not set, it uses the system default: 
.BR @TEXFONTS@ .
.SH OPTIONS
Without the
.I -verbose
option,
.I tftopl
operates silently.  With it, a banner and progress report are printed on
.IR stdout .
See
.BR tex (1)
for the details of specifying options.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
pltotf(1)
.br
Donald Knuth,
.I TeXware, The METAFONTbook
.SH AUTHORS
Donald Knuth wrote the program. It was published as
part of the
.I TeXware
technical report, available from the TeX Users Group.
Howard Trickey and Pavel Curtis originally ported it to Unix.