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  NAME
       mkfontdir - create fonts.dir file from directory of font
       files.


  SYNOPSIS
       mkfontdir [directory-names]

  DESCRIPTION
       Mkfontdir 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
       configuration parameters, but typically include SNF (suffix
       ".snf"), compressed SNF (suffix ".snf.Z"), BDF (suffix
       ".bdf"), and compressed BDF (suffix ".bdf.Z").  If a font
       exists in multiple formats, the most efficient format will
       be used.

  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
       forward enough, two white-space separated columns, the first
       containing aliases and the second containing font-name
       patterns.

       When a font alias is used, the name it references is search
       for in the normal manner, looking through each font
       directory 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:



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       "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 .snf
       suffix) will be used as an alias for that font.

  USAGE
       Xserver(1) looks for both "fonts.dir" and "fonts.alias" in
       each directory in the font path each time it is set (see
       xset(1)).

  SEE ALSO
       X(1), Xserver(1), xset(1)




























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