opl2ofm(1) Omega opl2ofm(1)NAME
opl2ofm - convert Omega and TeX property-list files to font-metric files
SYNOPSIS
opl2ofm [OPTIONS] OPLFILE[.opl] [OFMFILE[.ofm]]
DESCRIPTION
opl2ofm translates a property-list format file, OPLFILE, into the binary Omega Font Metric format. The program writes to standard output
(by default) or to a file specified as OFMFILE.
The program also works with TeX PL files, producing TeX TFM files. (opl2ofm is based on the WEB source code for pltotf(1).)
OPTIONS -help display a brief summary of syntax and options
-verbose
display progress reports
-version
output version information and exit
BUGS
None known, but report any found to <omega@ens.fr> (mailing list). You should also check to see if the bug is present in pltotf(1).
SEE ALSO omega(1), ofm2opl(1), pltotf(1), tftopl(1).
Draft Manual for the Omega System (omega-manual.dvi).
Web page: <http://www.gutenberg.eu.org/omega/>
AUTHOR
According to the WEB documentation:
The first PLtoTF program was designed by Leo Guibas in the summer of 1978. Contributions by Frank Liang, Doug Wyatt, and Lyle
Ramshaw also had a significant effect on the evolution of the present code.
Extensions for an enhanced ligature mechanism were added by D.E. Knuth in 1989.
Extensions to handle extended font metric files (``OFM'') were added by John Plaice in December 1995 and January 1996, resulting in
the new program OPL2OFM.
The primary authors of Omega are John Plaice <plaice@cse.unsw.edu.au> and Yannis Haralambous <yannis@fluxus-virus.com>.
This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly <cmc@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. It may be used by other distributions
without contacting the author. Any mistakes or omissions in the manual page are my fault; inquiries about or corrections to this manual
page should be directed to me (and not to the primary author).
Omega September 2000 opl2ofm(1)
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OMEGA(1) General Commands Manual OMEGA(1)NAME
omega, iniomega, viromega - extended unicode TeX
SYNOPSIS
omega [options] [commands]
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.
Omega is a version of the TeX program modified for multilingual typesetting. It uses unicode, and has additional primitives for (among
other things) bidirectional typesetting.
The iniomega and viromega commands are Omega's analogues to the initex and virtex commands. In this installation, they are symlinks to the
omega executable.
Omega's command line options are similar to those of TeX.
Omega is experimental software.
OPTIONS
This version of Omega understands the following command line options.
--fmt format
Use format as the name of the format to be used, instead of the name by which Omega was called or a %& line.
--help Print help message and exit.
--ini Be iniomega, for dumping formats; this is implicitly true if the program is called as iniomega.
--interaction mode
Sets the interaction mode. The mode can be one of batchmode, nonstopmode, scrollmode, and errorstopmode. The meaning of these
modes is the same as that of the corresponding commands.
--ipc Send DVI output to a socket as well as the usual output file. Whether this option is available is the choice of the installer.
--ipc-start
As --ipc, and starts the server at the other end as well. Whether this option is available is the choice of the installer.
--kpathsea-debug bitmask
Sets path searching debugging flags according to the bitmask. See the Kpathsea manual for details.
--maketex fmt
Enable mktexfmt, where fmt must be one of tex or tfm.
--no-maketex fmt
Disable mktexfmt, where fmt must be one of tex or tfm.
--output-comment string
Use string for the DVI file comment instead of the date.
--progname name
Pretend to be program name. This affects both the format used and the search paths.
--shell-escape
Enable the write18{command} construct. The command can be any Bourne shell command. This construct is normally disallowed for
security reasons.
--version
Print version information and exit.
ENVIRONMENT
See the Kpathsearch library documentation (the `Path specifications' node) for precise details of how the environment variables are used.
The kpsewhich utility can be used to query the values of the variables.
One caveat: In most Omega formats, you cannot use ~ in a filename you give directly to Omega, because ~ is an active character, and hence
is expanded, not taken as part of the filename. Other programs, such as Metafont, do not have this problem.
TEXMFOUTPUT
Normally, Omega puts its output files in the current directory. If any output file cannot be opened there, it tries to open it in
the directory specified in the environment variable TEXMFOUTPUT. There is no default value for that variable. For example, if you
say tex paper and the current directory is not writable, if TEXMFOUTPUT has the value /tmp, Omega attempts to create /tmp/paper.log
(and /tmp/paper.dvi, if any output is produced.)
TEXINPUTS
Search path for input and openin files. This should probably start with ``.'', so that user files are found before system files.
An empty path component will be replaced with the paths defined in the texmf.cnf file. For example, set TEXINPUTS to
".:/home/usr/tex:" to prepend the current direcory and ``/home/user/tex'' to the standard search path.
TEXEDIT
Command template for switching to editor. The default, usually vi, is set when Omega is compiled.
FILES
The location of the files mentioned below varies from system to system. Use the kpsewhich utility to find their locations.
omega.pool
Encoded text of Omega's messages.
*.fmt Predigested Omega format (.fmt) files.
BUGS
This version of Omega fails to trap arithmetic overflow when dimensions are added or subtracted. Cases where this occurs are rare, but
when it does the generated DVI file will be invalid.
The DVI files produced by Omega may use extensions which make them incompatible with most software designed to handle DVI files. In order
to print or preview them, you should use odvips to generate a PostScript file.
Omega is experimental software. If you use it, subscribe to the omega mailing list omega@ens.fr by sending a message containing subscribe
omega Your Name to listserv@ens.fr.
SEE ALSO tex(1), mf(1), odvips(1), undump(1).
AUTHORS
The primary authors of Omega are John Plaice and Yannis Haralambous.
Web2C 7.3.1 27 December 1997 OMEGA(1)