NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page is not meant to be exhaustive.  The complete documentation for this version of TeX can
       be found in the info file or manual Web2C: A TeX implementation.

       The pltotf program translates a (human-oriented) property list file  to  a  (program-oriented)  TeX  font
       metric  file.  Thus,  after editing the property list file, a TFM file can be generated for use with, for
       example, tex(1).

       The pl_file_name is extended with .pl if it lacks a suffix. No path searching is done.

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

OPTIONS

       Without the -verbose option, pltotf operates silently.  With it, a banner and progress report are printed
       on stdout.

SEE ALSO

       tftopl(1).
       Donald E. Knuth, TeX for nroffware.
       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 TeX for nroffware technical report,
       available from the TeX Users Group.  Howard Trickey, Pavel Curtis, and Richard Furuta  originally  ported
       it to Unix.