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OVP2OVF(1) General Commands Manual OVP2OVF(1)

NAME

ovp2ovf - convert Omega and TeX virtual property list (ovp) files to virtual font metric (ovf) files

SYNOPSIS

ovp2ovf [options] ovpfile[.ovp] [ovffile[.ovf] [ofmfile[.ofm]]]

DESCRIPTION

ovp2ovf translates a human-readable virtual property list (.ovp) file, ovpfile, into a virtual font (.ovf) file, ovffile and its companion font metric (.ofm) file, ofmfile.

The program also works with TeX virtual property list (.vpl) files, producing TeX virtual fonts (.vf and .tfm).

OPTIONS

output help message and exit
output progress reports
output version information and exit

FILES

Omega Font Metric file
Omega Virtual Font file
Omega Virtual Property List file

BUGS

Email bug reports via https://lists.tug.org/tex-k (mailing list); good to check if the same bug is present in vptovf(1).

SEE ALSO

omega(1), ofm2opl(1), ovf2ovp(1), pltotf(1), tftopl(1), vftovp(1), vptovf(1)

AUTHOR

According to the WEB documentation:

VPtoVF is an extended version of the program PLtoTF, which is part of the standard TeXware library. OVP2OVF is an extended version of VPtoVF that allows much larger fonts. The idea of a virtual font was inspired by the work of David R. Fuchs who designed a similar set of conventions in 1984 while developing a device driver for ArborText, Inc. He wrote a somewhat similar program called PLFONT.

The primary authors of Omega were John Plaice and Yannis Haralambous. Omega (and Aleph) are now maintained as part of TeX Live.

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

30 January 2026 Web2C 2026