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     NAME
          mkfontdir - create fonts.dir file from directory of font
          files

     SYNOPSIS
          mmmmkkkkffffoooonnnnttttddddiiiirrrr [directory-names]

     DESCRIPTION
          MMMMkkkkffffoooonnnnttttddddiiiirrrr For each directory argument, mkfontdir reads all
          of the font files in the directory searching for properties
          named "FONT", or (failing that) the name of the file
          stripped of its suffix.  These are used as font names, which
          are written out to the file "fonts.dir" in the directory
          along with the name of the font file.

          The kinds of font files read by mkfontdir depends on confi-
          guration parameters, but typically include PCF (suffix
          ".pcf"), SNF (suffix ".snf") and BDF (suffix ".bdf").  If a
          font exists in multiple formats, _m_k_f_o_n_t_d_i_r will first choose
          PCF, then SNF and finally BDF.

     SCALABLE FONTS
          Because scalable font files do not usually include the X
          font name, the fonts.dir file in directories containing such
          fonts must be edited by hand to include the appropriate
          entries for those fonts.  However, when _m_k_f_o_n_t_d_i_r is run,
          all of those additions will be lost, so be careful.

     FONT NAME ALIASES
          The file "fonts.alias" which can be put in any directory of
          the font-path is used to map new names to existing fonts,
          and should be edited by hand.  The format is straight for-
          ward enough, two white-space separated columns, the first
          containing aliases and the second containing font-name pat-
          terns.

          When a font alias is used, the name it references is search
          for in the normal manner, looking through each font direc-
          tory in turn.  This means that the aliases need not mention
          fonts in the same directory as the alias file.

          To embed white-space in either name, simply enclose them in
          double-quote marks, to embed double-quote marks (or any
          other character), precede them with back-slash:

          "magic-alias with spaces"     "\"font\name\" with quotes"
          regular-alias            fixed

          If the string "FILE_NAMES_ALIASES" stands alone on a line,
          each file-name in the directory (stripped of it's suffix)
          will be used as an alias for that font.

     USAGE


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     MKFONTDIR(1)                   AIX                   MKFONTDIR(1)



          Both the XXXX sssseeeerrrrvvvveeeerrrr and the FFFFoooonnnntttt SSSSeeeerrrrvvvveeeerrrr look for "fonts.dir"
          and "fonts.alias" files in each directory in the font path
          each time it is set (see xset(1)).

     SEE ALSO
          X(1), Xserver(1), fs(1), xset(1)

















































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