Manual: mkfontscale

MKFONTSCALE(1)					   General Commands Manual				      MKFONTSCALE(1)

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
       prefix ] [ -r prefix ] [ -n prefix ] [ -u | -U ] [ -v ] [ -- ] [ 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 possibly manually edited before being used as input for the	 mk‐
       fontdir(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 re-encode legacy fonts (BDF and PCF).   By	 de‐
	      fault, it is assumed that the implementation can re-encode 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.

       -p     Specifies a prefix that is prepended to the encoding file path names when they  are  written  to	the  "encod‐
	      ings.dir"	 file.	 The  prefix  is  prepended  literally: 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 relative form when writing the "encodings.dir" file.  The	 de‐
	      fault is to convert relative encoding directories to absolute directories by prepending the current directory.
	      The positioning of this options is significant, as this option only applies to subsequent -e options.

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

       -u, -U disable (-u) or enable (-U) indexing of ISO 10646:1 font encodings (default: enabled).

       -v     print program version and exit.

       --     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
       The version of mkfontscale included in this X.Org Foundation release was originally  written  by	 Juliusz  Chroboczek
         for the XFree86 project.	The functionality of this program was inspired by the ttmkfdir util‐
       ity by Joerg Pommnitz.

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