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diff --git a/man/mkfontscale.man b/man/mkfontscale.man new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4ed3d7d --- /dev/null +++ b/man/mkfontscale.man @@ -0,0 +1,156 @@ +.\" $XFree86: xc/programs/mkfontscale/mkfontscale.man,v 1.4 2003/06/20 15:49:52 eich Exp $ +.\" +.TH MKFONTSCALE __appmansuffix__ __vendorversion__ +.SH NAME +mkfontscale \- create an index of scalable font files for X +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B mkfontscale +[ +.B \-b +] [ +.B \-s +] [ +.B \-o +.I filename +] [ +.B \-x +.I suffix +] [ +.B \-a +.I encoding +] \|.\|.\|. [ +.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 +reads all of the scalable font files in the directory. For every font +file found, an X11 font name (XLFD) is generated, and is written +together with the file name to a file +.B fonts.scale +in the directory. + +The resulting +.B fonts.scale +file should be checked and possibly manually edited before being used +as input for the +.BR mkfontdir (__appmansuffix__) +program. +.SH OPTIONS +.TP +.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. +.TP +.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 +.IR suffix . +.TP +.BI \-a " encoding" +add +.I encoding +to the list of encodings searched for. +.TP +.BI \-f " fuzz" +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 literally: 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 +.B \-e +options. +.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(__appmansuffix__), mkfontdir(__appmansuffix__), ttmkfdir(__appmansuffix__), xfs(__appmansuffix__), xset(__appmansuffix__) +.SH NOTES +The format of the +.BR fonts.scale , +.B fonts.dir +and +.B encodings.dir +files is documented in the mkfontdir(__appmansuffix__) 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 +The version of +.B mkfontscale +included in this X.Org Foundation release was originally written by +Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@freedesktop.org> for the XFree86 project. The +functionality of this program was inspired by the +.B ttmkfdir +utility by Joerg Pommnitz. |