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+<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.2//EN" 'http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd'>
+
+<!-- Process this file with DocBook tools to generate the output format
+(such as manual pages or HTML documents).
+
+Note that strings like __appmansuffix__, __filemansuffix__, __libmansuffix__,
+__miscmansuffix__ etc. have to be replaced first (in theory that's the
+job of ENTITIES but some XML tools are highly allergic to such stuff... ;-().
+A quick way to do that is to filter this document via
+/usr/bin/sed "s/__appmansuffix__/${MANSUFFIX}/g;s/__filemansuffix__/${FILEMANSUFFIX}/g;s/__libmansuffix__/${LIBMANSUFFIX}/g;s/__miscmansuffix__/${MISCMANSUFFIX}/g"
+assuming that env vars like MANSUFFIX etc. have been set to the matching
+manual volume numbers.
+ -->
+
+<refentry>
+ <refmeta>
+ <refentrytitle>xlsfonts</refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>__appmansuffix__</manvolnum>
+ </refmeta>
+
+ <refnamediv>
+ <refname>xlsfonts</refname>
+ <refpurpose>server font list displayer for X</refpurpose>
+ </refnamediv>
+
+ <refsynopsisdiv>
+ <cmdsynopsis>
+ <command>xlsfonts</command>
+
+ <arg><option>-display <replaceable>host:dpy</replaceable></option></arg>
+
+ <arg><option>-l</option></arg>
+
+ <arg><option>-ll</option></arg>
+
+ <arg><option>-lll</option></arg>
+
+ <arg><option>-m</option></arg>
+
+ <arg><option>-C</option></arg>
+
+ <arg><option>-1</option></arg>
+
+ <arg><option>-w <replaceable>width</replaceable></option></arg>
+
+ <arg><option>-n <replaceable>columns</replaceable></option></arg>
+
+ <arg><option>-u</option></arg>
+
+ <arg><option>-o</option></arg>
+
+ <arg><option>-fn <replaceable>pattern</replaceable></option></arg>
+ </cmdsynopsis>
+ </refsynopsisdiv>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
+
+ <para>
+ <command>xlsfonts</command> lists the fonts that match the given pattern.
+ The wildcard character "*" may be used to match any sequence of characters
+ (including none), and "?" to match any single character.
+ If no pattern is given, "*" is assumed.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The "*" and "?" characters must be quoted to prevent them from being expanded by the shell.
+ </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>OPTIONS</title>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-display <replaceable>host:dpy</replaceable></option>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This option specifies the X server to contact.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-d <replaceable>host:dpy</replaceable></option>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Same as <option>-display <replaceable>host:dpy</replaceable></option>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-l</option>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Lists some attributes of the font on one line in addition
+ to its name.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-ll</option>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Lists font properties in addition to <option>-l</option> output.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-lll</option>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Lists character metrics in addition to <option>-ll</option> output.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-m</option>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This option indicates that long listings should also print
+ the minimum and maximum bounds of each font.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-C</option>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This option indicates that listings should use multiple columns.
+ This is the same as <option>-n 0</option>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-1</option>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This option indicates that listings should use a single column.
+ This is the same as <option>-n 1</option>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-w <replaceable>width</replaceable></option>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This option specifies the width in characters that should be
+ used in figuring out how many columns to print.
+ The default is 79.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-n <replaceable>columns</replaceable></option>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This option specifies the number of columns to use in
+ displaying the output. By default, it will attempt to
+ fit as many columns of font names into the number of
+ character specified by <option>-w</option> width.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-u</option>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This option indicates that the output should be left unsorted.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-o</option>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This option indicates that xlsfonts should do an OpenFont
+ (and QueryFont, if appropriate) rather than a ListFonts.
+ This is useful if ListFonts or ListFontsWithInfo fail to
+ list a known font (as is the case with some scaled font
+ systems).
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-fn <replaceable>pattern</replaceable></option>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This option specifies the font name pattern to match.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>SEE ALSO</title>
+ <para>
+ <simplelist type="inline">
+ <member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>X</refentrytitle><manvolnum>__miscmansuffix__</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
+ <member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>Xserver</refentrytitle><manvolnum>__appmansuffix__</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
+ <member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>xset</refentrytitle><manvolnum>__appmansuffix__</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
+ <member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>xfd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>__appmansuffix__</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
+ <member>X Logical Font Description Conventions</member>
+ </simplelist>
+ </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>ENVIRONMENT</title>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><envar>DISPLAY</envar>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><envar>DISPLAY</envar> must be set to get the default host and display to use.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>BUGS</title>
+
+ <para>
+ Doing ``xlsfonts -l'' can tie up your server for a very long time.
+ This is really a bug with single-threaded
+ non-preemptable servers, not with this program.
+ </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>AUTHOR</title>
+
+ <para>
+ <simplelist>
+ <member><othercredit><firstname>Mark</firstname> <surname>Lillibridge</surname> <affiliation><orgname>MIT Project Athena</orgname></affiliation></othercredit></member>
+ <member><othercredit><firstname>Jim</firstname> <surname>Fulton</surname> <affiliation><orgname>MIT X Consortium</orgname></affiliation></othercredit></member>
+ <member><othercredit><firstname>Phil</firstname> <surname>Karlton</surname> <affiliation><orgname>SGI</orgname></affiliation></othercredit></member>
+ <member><othercredit><firstname>Roland</firstname> <surname>Mainz</surname> <affiliation><orgname>University Giessen</orgname></affiliation></othercredit></member>
+ </simplelist>
+ </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+</refentry>
+
+