man: document font syntaxes
Change-Id: Id441d4df192c47388af6b5da306f14d90f066d18 Reviewed-on: https://plan9port-review.googlesource.com/1173 Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
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to draw characters from the font.
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.I Openfont
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does the same, but reads the description
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from the named file.
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from the named font.
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.I Freefont
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frees a font.
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The convention for naming font files is:
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.IP
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.B /lib/font/bit/\fIname\fP/\fIrange\fP.\fIsize\fP.font
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.PD
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.PP
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where
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.I size
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is approximately the height in pixels of the lower case letters
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(without ascenders or descenders).
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.I Range
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gives some indication of which characters will be available: for example
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.BR ascii ,
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.BR latin1 ,
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.BR euro ,
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or
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.BR unicode .
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.B Euro
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includes most European languages, punctuation marks, the International Phonetic
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Alphabet, etc., but no Oriental languages.
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.B Unicode
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includes every character for which appropriate-sized images exist on the system.
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In contrast to Plan 9, font names in Plan 9 from User Space are
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a small language describing the desired font.
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See
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.IR font (7)
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for details.
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.PP
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A
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.I Cursor
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.B $font
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is not set, it imports the default (usually minimal)
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font from the operating system.
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(See
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.IR font (7)
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for a full discussion of font syntaxes.)
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The global
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.I font
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will be set to point to the resulting
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