Man1 - ppltotf.1

ppltotf, uppltotf - Create Japanese pTeX font metric (JFM)

ppltotf [/options/] pl_file_name[/*.pl*/] [/tfm_file_name/[/*.tfm*/]]

The ppltotf program translates a Japanese property list (JPL) file to a Japanese pTeX font metric (JFM) file. The resulting JFM file can be used with pTeX and e-pTeX.

The uppltotf program is a Unicode-enabled version of ppltotf. The resulting JFM file can be used with upTeX and e-upTeX.

In the following sections, we refer to these programs as (u)ppltotf.

(u)ppltotf is upper compatible with pltotf; if the input PL file is for roman fonts, it is translated into an ordinary TeX font metric (TFM) file. The difference between ppltotf and uppltotf lies in the output encoding: ppltotf always outputs JIS-encoded JFM; on the other hand, uppltotf outputs Unicode-encoded JFM by default.

Compared to pltotf, the following option is added to (u)ppltotf.

*-kanji*/ string/

Sets the input Japanese Kanji code. The string can be one of the followings: euc (EUC-JP), jis (ISO-2022-JP), sjis (Shift_JIS), utf8 (UTF-8), uptex (UTF-8; uppltotf only).

When one of euc, jis, sjis or utf8 is specified, both ppltotf and uppltotf output a JIS-encoded JFM. When uptex is specified with uppltotf, it outputs a Unicode-encoded JFM.

*ptex*(1).

(u)ppltotf is maintained by Japanese TeX Development Community https://texjp.org. For bug reports, open an issue at GitHub repository https://github.com/texjporg/tex-jp-build, or send an e-mail to <issue@texjp.org>.

This manual page was written by Hironobu Yamashita.