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
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.
The
pl_name
is extended with
.pl
if it lacks a suffix.
If
pl_name
is not given, standard output is used. Likewise,
tfm_name
is extended with
.tfm
if it lacks a suffix. Also, path searching is done for the
.tfm
file
using the environment variable TEXFONTS. If that is not set,
tftopl
uses the system default.
See
tex(1)
for the details of the searching.