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)