TFTOPL(1L)

NAME
tftopl - convert font metric (tfm) files to property list

SYNOPSIS
tftopl tfm_file_name pl_file_name

DESCRIPTION
TFtoPL translates a (program-readable) font metric file to a (human-readable) property list file. Thus, the font metric file can be edited (although this should not be necessary if it was prepared by METAFONT), and its exact contents can be displayed mnemonically. TFtoPL also serves as a TFM-file validating program; if no error messages are given, the input file is correct.

Both the tfm_file_name and the pl_file_name must be complete. No adding of default extensions is done.

SEE ALSO
Donald Knuth, TeXware, The METAFONTbook

AUTHORS
Donald Knuth wrote the program. It was published as part of the TeXware technical report (Stanford CS1097), available from TUG (the TeX Users Group). Howard Trickey and Pavel Curtis ported it to Unix.