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MKFONTSCALE(1)         DragonFly 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 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.

       -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 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 default 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 directories 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 <jch@freedesktop.org> for
       the XFree86 project.  The functionality of this program was inspired by
       the ttmkfdir utility by Joerg Pommnitz.

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