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author | Kaleb Keithley <kaleb@freedesktop.org> | 2003-11-25 19:29:02 +0000 |
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committer | Kaleb Keithley <kaleb@freedesktop.org> | 2003-11-25 19:29:02 +0000 |
commit | 324cfb1744c2c3cc253dd0f63c2252206eb72249 (patch) | |
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parent | 632e8a138dd16efe41384a4335ec46530da4a04b (diff) |
XFree86 4.3.99.16 Bring the tree up to date for the Cygwin folksxf86-4_3_99_16
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diff --git a/mkfontscale.man b/mkfontscale.man index a1c2568..5882a97 100644 --- a/mkfontscale.man +++ b/mkfontscale.man @@ -1,23 +1,45 @@ -.\" $XFree86: xc/programs/mkfontscale/mkfontscale.man,v 1.2 2002/09/27 01:55:07 dawes Exp $ +.\" $XFree86: xc/programs/mkfontscale/mkfontscale.man,v 1.5 2003/07/04 16:24:30 eich Exp $ .\" .TH MKFONTSCALE 1 __vendorversion__ .SH NAME mkfontscale \- create an index of scalable font files for X - .SH SYNOPSIS .B mkfontscale [ -.B \-e +.B \-b +] [ +.B \-s +] [ +.B \-o +.I filename +] [ +.B \-x +.I suffix +] [ +.B \-a .I encoding ] \|.\|.\|. [ -.B \-f +.B \-f .I fuzz ] [ +.B \-l +] [ +.B \-e +.I directory +] [ +.B \-p +.I prefix +] [ +.B \-r +.I prefix +] [ +.B \-n +.I prefix +] [ .B \-\- ] [ .I directory ] \|.\|.\|. - .SH DESCRIPTION For each directory argument, .I mkfontscale @@ -33,11 +55,36 @@ file should be checked and possibly manually edited before being used as input for the .BR mkfontdir (1) program. - .SH OPTIONS - .TP -.BI \-e " encoding" +.B \-b +read bitmap fonts. By default, bitmap fonts are ignored. +.TP +.B \-s +ignore scalable fonts. By default, scalable fonts are read. If +.B \-b +is set, this flag has the side effect of enabling the reading of +.B fonts.scale +files. +.BI \-o " filename" +send program output to +.IR filename ; +default is +.B fonts.scale +if bitmap fonts are not being read, and +.B fonts.dir +if they are. If +.I filename +is relative, it is created in the directory being processed. If it is +the special value +.BR \- , +output is written to standard output. +.TP +.BI \-x " suffix" +exclude all files with the specified +.I suffix +.TP +.BI \-a " encoding" add .I encoding to the list of encodings searched for. @@ -47,18 +94,55 @@ set the fraction of characters that may be missing in large encodings to .I fuzz percent. Defaults to 2%. .TP +.B \-l +Write +.B fonts.dir +files suitable for implementations that cannot reencode legacy fonts +(BDF and PCF). By default, it is assumed that the implementation can +reencode Unicode-encoded legacy fonts. +.TP +.B -e +specifies a directory with encoding files. Every such +directory is scanned for encoding files, the list of which is then +written to an "encodings.dir" file in every font directory. +.TP +.B -p +Specifies a prefix that is prepended to the encoding file path names +when they are written to the "encodings.dir" file. The prefix is +prepended litterally: if a `/' is required between the prefix and the path +names, it must be supplied explicitly as part of the prefix. +.TP +.B \-r +Keep non-absolute encoding directories in their relative form when +writing the "encodings.dir" file. The default is to convert relative +encoding directories to absolute directories by prepending the current +directory. The positioning of this options is significant, as this +option only applies to subsequent +.TP +.B \-n +do not scan for fonts, do not write font directory files. This option +is useful when generating encoding directories only. +.TP .B \-\- end of options. - .SH SEE ALSO X(__miscmansuffix__), Xserver(1), mkfontdir(1), ttmkfdir(1), xfs(1), xset(1) - .SH NOTES +The format of the +.BR fonts.scale , +.B fonts.dir +and +.B encodings.dir +files is documented in the mkfontdir(1) manual page. + .B Mkfontscale will overwrite any .B fonts.scale file even if it has been hand-edited. +.B mkfontscale -b -s -l +is equivalent to +.BR mkfontdir . .SH AUTHOR .B Mkfontscale was written by Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@xfree86.org> for the XFree86 |