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diff --git a/mkfontscale.man b/mkfontscale.man new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a1c2568 --- /dev/null +++ b/mkfontscale.man @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +.\" $XFree86: xc/programs/mkfontscale/mkfontscale.man,v 1.2 2002/09/27 01:55:07 dawes Exp $ +.\" +.TH MKFONTSCALE 1 __vendorversion__ +.SH NAME +mkfontscale \- create an index of scalable font files for X + +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B mkfontscale +[ +.B \-e +.I encoding +] \|.\|.\|. [ +.B \-f +.I fuzz +] [ +.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 (1) +program. + +.SH OPTIONS + +.TP +.BI \-e " 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 \-\- +end of options. + +.SH SEE ALSO +X(__miscmansuffix__), Xserver(1), mkfontdir(1), ttmkfdir(1), xfs(1), xset(1) + +.SH NOTES +.B Mkfontscale +will overwrite any +.B fonts.scale +file even if it has been hand-edited. + +.SH AUTHOR +.B Mkfontscale +was written by Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@xfree86.org> for the XFree86 +project. The functionality of this program was inspired by the +.B ttmkfdir +utility by Joerg Pommnitz. |