MirBSD manpage: mkfontscale(1)


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NAME

     mkfontscale - create an index of scalable font files for X

SYNOPSIS

     mkfontscale [ -b ] [ -s ] [ -o filename ] [ -x suffix ] [ -a
     encoding ] ... [ -f fuzz ] [ -l ] [ -e directory ] [ -p pre-
     fix ] [ -r prefix ] [ -n prefix ] [ -- ] [ directory ] ...

DESCRIPTION

     For each directory argument, 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 fonts.scale in the
     directory.

     The resulting fonts.scale file should be checked and possi-
     bly manually edited before being used as input for the
     mkfontdir(1) program.

OPTIONS

     -b   read bitmap fonts.  By default, bitmap fonts are
          ignored.

     -s   ignore scalable fonts.  By default, scalable fonts are
          read.  If -b is set, this flag has the side effect of
          enabling the reading of fonts.scale files. -o filename
          send program output to filename; default is fonts.scale
          if bitmap fonts are not being read, and fonts.dir if
          they are.  If filename is relative, it is created in
          the directory being processed.  If it is the special
          value -, output is written to standard output.

     -x suffix
          exclude all files with the specified suffix

     -a encoding
          add encoding to the list of encodings searched for.

     -f fuzz
          set the fraction of characters that may be missing in
          large encodings to fuzz percent.  Defaults to 2%.

     -l   Write 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.

     -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.

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     -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 lit-
          terally: if a `/' is required between the prefix and
          the path names, it must be supplied explicitly as part
          of the prefix.

     -r   Keep non-absolute encoding directories in their rela-
          tive form when writing the "encodings.dir" file.  The
          default is to convert relative encoding directories to
          absolute directories by prepending the current direc-
          tory.  The positioning of this options is significant,
          as this option only applies to subsequent

     -n   do not scan for fonts, do not write font directory
          files.  This option is useful when generating encoding
          directories only.

     --   end of options.

SEE ALSO

     X(7), Xserver(1), mkfontdir(1), ttmkfdir(1), xfs(1), xset(1)

NOTES

     The format of the fonts.scale, fonts.dir and encodings.dir
     files is documented in the mkfontdir(1) manual page.

     Mkfontscale will overwrite any fonts.scale file even if it
     has been hand-edited.

     mkfontscale -b -s -l is equivalent to mkfontdir.

AUTHOR

     Mkfontscale was written by Juliusz Chroboczek
     <jch@pps.jussieu.fr> for the XFree86 project.  The func-
     tionality of this program was inspired by the ttmkfdir util-
     ity by Joerg Pommnitz.

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