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diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/groff/addftinfo/addftinfo.1_in b/gnu/usr.bin/groff/addftinfo/addftinfo.1_in new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..6741c171f64 --- /dev/null +++ b/gnu/usr.bin/groff/addftinfo/addftinfo.1_in @@ -0,0 +1,102 @@ +.ig \"-*- nroff -*- +Copyright (C) 1989-1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + +Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of +this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice +are preserved on all copies. + +Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this +manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the +entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a +permission notice identical to this one. + +Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this +manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified +versions, except that this permission notice may be included in +translations approved by the Free Software Foundation instead of in +the original English. +.. +.TH ADDFTINFO @MAN1EXT@ "@MDATE@" "Groff Version @VERSION@" +.SH NAME +addftinfo \- add information to troff font files for use with groff +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B addftinfo +[ +.BI \- param\ value\fR.\|.\|. +] +.I res +.I unitwidth +.I font +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B addftinfo +reads a troff font file +and adds some additional font-metric information +that is used by the groff system. +The font file with the information added is written on the +standard output. +The information added is guessed using +some parametric information about the font +and assumptions +about the traditional troff names for characters. +The main information added is the heights and depths of characters. +The +.I res +and +.I unitwidth +arguments should be the same as the corresponding parameters +in the DESC file; +.I font +is the name of the file describing the font; +if +.I font +ends with +.B I +the font will be assumed to be italic. +.SH OPTIONS +Each of the options changes one of the parameters that is used +to derive the heights and depths. +Like the existing quantities in the font +file, each +.I value +is in +.RI inches/ res +for a font whose point size is +.IR unitwidth . +.I param +must be one of: +.TP +.B x-height +The height of lowercase letters without ascenders such as x. +.TP +.B fig-height +The height of figures (digits). +.TP +.B asc-height +The height of characters with ascenders, such as b, d or l. +.TP +.B body-height +The height of characters such as parentheses. +.TP +.B cap-height +The height of uppercase letters such as A. +.TP +.B comma-depth +The depth of a comma. +.TP +.B desc-depth +The depth of characters with descenders, such as p,q, or y. +.TP +.B body-depth +The depth of characters such as parentheses. +.LP +.B addftinfo +makes no attempt to use the specified parameters to guess +the unspecified parameters. +If a parameter is not specified the default will be used. +The defaults are chosen to have the reasonable values for +a Times font. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR font (5) +.BR groff_font (@MAN5EXT@), +.BR groff (@MAN1EXT@), +.BR groff_char (@MAN7EXT@) |