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.TH AFTOPL L "10 December 1988"
.SH NAME
aftopl \- convert an AFM file to a TeX PL file
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B aftopl
[
.BI \-e encoding
]
.I afmfile
[
.I plfile
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B aftopl
converts an AFM (Adobe Font Metric) file to a TeX PL (Property List) file.
An extension of
.B .afm
can be omitted from
.IR afmfile .
An extension of
.B .pl
can be omitted from
.IR plfile .
If
.I plfile
is omitted, it will be derived from
.I afmfile
by replacing the extension of
.I afmfile
by
.BR .pl .
The PL file can be converted to the TFM file needed by TeX by the pltotf
utility.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BI \-e encoding
Produce a PL file suitable for the font when reencoded using
.IR encoding .
There should be a file called
.IB encoding .enc
in the same place that TFM files are kept.
This should give the PostScript name of each element of the encoding vector
(without a leading
.BR / ).
Names should be separated by white space.
Use the name
.B .notdef
for empty elements of the vector.
.SH FILES
.B /usr/local/tex/fonts/*.enc
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR tex (L),
.BR pltotf (L),
.BR dvitops (L),
.IR "PostScript Language Reference Manual" .
.SH BUGS
.LP
The same character must not occur more than once in the encoding vector. 
.LP
There is no single `right' way to generate a PL file from an AFM file.
.B aftopl
tries to do something reasonable.
If you don't like the results, you should feel free to edit the PL file.
.LP
If a composite character is included in the encoding vector, then all
of its components must also be included; for example, if
.B aacute
occurs
then so must
.B a
and
.BR acute .
.B aftopl
does not check this.
.SH AUTHOR
James Clark <jjc@jclark.uucp>