bdftruncate(1) [x11r4 man page]

bdftruncate(1)						      General Commands Manual						    bdftruncate(1)

NAME

       bdftruncate - generate truncated BDF font from ISO 10646-1-encoded BDF font

SYNOPSIS

       bdftruncate threshold < source.bdf > destination.bdf

DESCRIPTION

       bdftruncate allows one to generate from an ISO10646-1 encoded BDF font other ISO10646-1 BDF fonts in which all characters above a threshold
       code value are stored unencoded.  This is often desirable because the Xlib API and X11 protocol data structures used for representing  font
       metric information are extremely inefficient when handling sparsely populated fonts.

EXAMPLE

       The command
	      bdftruncate 0x3200 < 6x13.bdf > 6x13t.bdf
       will  generate  the  file 6x13t.bdf in which all glyphs with codes >= 0x3200 will only be stored unencoded (i.e., they are encoded at code-
       point -1).

SEE ALSO

       ucs2any(1)

AUTHOR

       bdftruncate was written by Markus Kuhn.

       Branden Robinson wrote this manual page, originally for the Debian Project.

X Version 11							  font-util 1.0.1						    bdftruncate(1)

ucs2any(1)							      XFree86								ucs2any(1)

NAME

       ucs2any - generate BDF fonts containing subsets of ISO 10646-1 codepoints

SYNOPSIS

       ucs2any [ +d | -d ] source-name { mapping-file registry-encoding } ...

DESCRIPTION

       ucs2any	allows	one  to  generate from an ISO 10646-1 encoded BDF font other BDF fonts in any possible encoding.  This way, one can derive
       from a single ISO 10646-1 master font a whole set of 8-bit fonts in all ISO 8859 and various other encodings.

OPTIONS

       +d     puts DEC VT100 graphics characters in the C0 range (default for upright, character-cell fonts).

       -d     omits DEC VT100 graphics characters from the C0 range (default for all font types except upright, character-cell fonts).

OPERANDS

       source-name
	      is the name of an ISO 10646-1 encoded BDF file.

       mapping-file
	      is the name of a character set table like those at <ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/>.  These  files  can  also  typically	be
	      found installed in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/util/ directory.

       registry-encoding
	      are the CHARSET_REGISTRY and CHARSET_ENCODING field values for the font name (XLFD) of the target font, separated by a hyphen.

       Any number of mapping-file and registry-encoding operand pairs may be specified.

EXAMPLE

       The command
	      ucs2any 6x13.bdf 8859-1.TXT iso8859-1 8859-2.TXT iso8859-2
       will generate the files 6x13-iso8859-1.bdf and 6x13-iso8859-2.bdf.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

       Hopefully  a  future  XFree86  release  will have a facility similar to ucs2any built into the server, and reencode ISO 10646-1 on the fly,
       because storing the same fonts in many different encodings is clearly a waste of storage capacity.

SEE ALSO

       bdftruncate(1)

AUTHOR

       ucs2any was written by Markus Kuhn.

       Branden Robinson wrote this manual page, originally for the Debian Project.

XFree86 						       Version Version 4.3.0							ucs2any(1)