update-xfonts-traditional(8) [debian man page]

UPDATE-XFONTS-TRADITIONAL(8)					 chiark utilities				      UPDATE-XFONTS-TRADITIONAL(8)

NAME

       update-xfonts-traditional - generate traditional ASCII fixed-with fonts

SYNOPSIS

       update-xfonts-traditional --bdf-filter

       update-xfonts-traditional --process-pcf in.pcf.gz out.pcf.gz

       update-xfonts-traditional --process-fontdirs fontdir ...

       update-xfonts-traditional --process-fonttrees fonttree ...

DESCRIPTION

       update-xfonts-traditional  generates versions of X11 PCF fonts which have been edited to restore compatibility with traditional versions of
       US-ASCII, and to restore some of the glyphs to more traditional appearance.

MODES

       --bdf-filter
	      Takes a BDF on standard input and tries to generate an edited BDF on standard output.

       --process-pcf
	      Takes to PCF filename arguments; the input PCF is uncompressed, decompiled to a BDF, processed,  recompiled  to  a  PCF  and  recom-
	      pressed.

       --process-fontdirs
	      In each fontdir all files font.pcf.gz are processed, to generate where applicable corresponding trad--font.pcf.gz files.	The mtime,
	      ctime and inode number of the input files are recorded so that reprocessing the same directory later will be fast.

       --process-fonttrees
	      Each fonttree is searched for font directories which are processed as above.

       --update
	      Each built in font tree location is searched for font directories which are processed as above.

OPTIONS

       -R|--rules-path rulespath
	      Prepend rulespath to the path of directories from which to load glyph editing rules.

       --share-dir share-dir
	      Use share-dir instead of /usr[/local]/share/xfonts-traditional.

       --parallel|-j cpus
	      Use up to cpus cores for processing fonts.  The default is all the cpus available.

       --always-reprocess
	      When scanning font directories, always reprocess all the fonts, regardless of whether we think they have been done already.

       --no-tolerate-bad-fonts
	      Treat bad input fonts (eg, ones for which pcf2bdf crashes, or ones with other problems) as a fatal error.  Normally they	just  pro-
	      duce a warning.

FILES

       xfonts-traditional.done
	      In each font directory, records information about processed fonts, so as to optimise away unnecessary reprocessing.

       xfonts-traditional.log
	      In each font directory, records a lot of which fonts were processed and to a certain extent if not why not.

       /usr/share/fonts/X11 /usr/local/share/fonts/X11
	      Default font tree paths for --update.

       trad--font.pcf.gz
	      In any font directory, our output files.	Any other files matching this pattern may be overwritten or deleted.

EXIT STATUS

       0      All went well and there were no warnings.

       2      With  --bdf-filter and --process-pcf only, indicates that the input font did not need to be edited, or was not suitable for editing,
	      and has not been written out, so the output is incomplete, but this is not an error.

       any other
	      There were problems.

BUGS

       Only the 6x13 font conventionally called supported.  This package comes too late to rescue Unix from an incompatible change to its  charac-
       ter set.

Greenend							       2012					      UPDATE-XFONTS-TRADITIONAL(8)

update-fonts-dir(8)					      System Manager's Manual					       update-fonts-dir(8)

NAME

       update-fonts-dir - compile fonts.dir files

SYNOPSIS

       update-fonts-dir [OPTION] directory ...

DESCRIPTION

       update-fonts-dir creates a fonts.dir file in an X font directory by invoking mkfontdir(1x) with the appropriate arguments.  It is typically
       invoked only from the post-installation and post-removal scripts of a package containing fonts for the X Window System, but may be  invoked
       at  any	time  to  reconstruct  fonts.dir  files.   For	each directory, which is simply the last component of its path (such as '75dpi' or
       'misc'), update-fonts-dir will generate either /usr/lib/X11/fonts/directory/fonts.dir or /usr/share/fonts/X11/directory/fonts.dir from  the
       fonts.scale and font files found within it.

       This  enables  multiple packages to provide names for fonts in the same directory.  No font package actually provides the fonts.dir file in
       the X font directory itself, so there is no danger of overwriting one package's font names with those of another.

       For instance, the two packages  'xfonts-base'  (real)  and  'xfonts-nifty'  (hypothetical)  may	both  install  fonts  into  the  directory
       /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc,  and  update-fonts-dir	will  ensure that the fonts.dir file in that directory contains information about the font
       files provided by both packages.

       The format of fonts.dir files is described in the mkfontdir(1x) manual page.

       An example of how to use update-fonts-dir in package maintainer scripts is provided in the Debian Policy Manual.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help displays a brief usage message and exits.

       -7, --x11r7-layout switches the font layout to the one introduced in X11R7: fonts in /usr/share/fonts/X11/directory (default is:  fonts	in
       /usr/lib/X11/fonts/directory)

OPERANDS

       update-fonts-dir  takes	one or more X font directory names to operate on as operands.  Only the final path component of the directory name
       should be specified; e.g.,
	      update-fonts-dir 75dpi
       is correct, while 'update-fonts-dir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi' and 'update-fonts-dir /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi' are not.

ENVIRONMENT

       COLUMNS
	      indicates the width of the terminal device in character cells.  This value is used for formatting diagnostic messages.  If not  set,
	      the terminal is queried using stty(1) to determine its width.  If that fails, a value of '80' is assumed.

DIAGNOSTICS

   Errors
       usage error: one or more font directories must be provided
	      update-fonts-dir was invoked without operands.  Supply one or more X font directory names to operate on.

       usage error: unrecognized option
	      update-fonts-dir was invoked with an unrecognized option argument.  Use only the options documented in "OPTIONS", above.

       fatal error: path to X font directory must be used
	      A directory name was supplied that was not an X font directory name.  Supply X font directory names only.

   Warnings
       warning: absolute path directory was provided
	      Usage of absolute paths is deprecated.  Use only the final component of the X font directory name for directory.

       warning: directory does not exist or is not a directory
	      The supplied directory was invalid.  update-fonts-dir skipped it.

EXIT STATUS

       0      update-fonts-dir ran successfully.

       1      update-fonts-dir experienced a fatal error; see the section on diagnostic messages above.

       2      update-fonts-dir was invoked with invalid arguments.

BUGS

       See  the  Debian  Bug  Tracking	System <http://bugs.debian.org/xfonts-utils>.  If you wish to report a bug in update-fonts-dir, please see
       /usr/share/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt or the reportbug(1) command.

AUTHOR

       update-fonts-dir was written by Branden Robinson.

SEE ALSO

       mkfontdir(1x)

Debian Project							    2004-11-11						       update-fonts-dir(8)