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NAME
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fontsrv – file system access to host fonts
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SYNOPSIS
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fontsrv [ −m mtpt ] [ −s srvname ]
fontsrv −p path
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DESCRIPTION
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Fontsrv presents the host window system’s fonts in the standard
Plan 9 format (see font(7)). It serves a virtual directory tree
mounted at mtpt (if the −m option is given) and posted at srvname
(default font).
The −p option changes fontsrv’s behavior: rather than serve a
file system, fontsrv prints to standard output the contents of
the named path. If path names a directory in the served file system,
fontsrv lists the directory’s contents.
The fonts are arranged in a two-level tree. The root contains
directories named for each system font. Each font directory contains
subdirectories named for a point size and whether the subfonts
are anti-aliased: 10 (bitmap) 10a (anti-aliased greyscale) 12,
12a, and so on. The font directory will synthesize additional
sizes on demand: looking up 19a
will synthesize the 19-point anti-aliased size if possible. Each
size directory contains a font file and subfont files named x0000.bit,
x0020.bit, and so on representing 32-character Unicode ranges.
Openfont (see graphics(3)) recognizes font paths beginning with
/mnt/font and implements them by invoking fontsrv; it need not
be running already. See font(7) for a full discussion of font
name syntaxes.
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EXAMPLES
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List the fonts on the system:
or:
Run acme(1) using the operating system’s Monaco as the fixed-width
font:
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% acme −F /mnt/font/Monaco/13a/font
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Run sam(1) using the same font:
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% font=/mnt/font/Monaco/13a/font sam
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SOURCE
SEE ALSO
BUGS
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Due to OS X restrictions, fontsrv does not fork itself into the
background when serving a user-level file system.
Fontsrv has no support for X11 fonts; on X11 systems, it will
serve an empty top-level directory.
On OS X, the anti-aliased bitmaps are not perfect. For example,
the lower case r in the subfont Times−Roman/14a/x0000.bit appears
truncated on the right and too light overall.
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