mkfontdir(X)       X Version 11 (11 July 1990)       mkfontdir(X)



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

     SYNOPSIS
          mkfontdir [directory-names]

     DESCRIPTION
          For each directory you specify, mkfontdir reads all of the
          font files in that directory and searches for properties
          named FONT.  Failing that, mkfontdir searches for 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 mkfontdir reads 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, mkfontdir uses the most efficient format.

     FONT NAME ALIASES
          The fonts.alias file, which you can put in any directory in
          the font path, is used to map new names to existing fonts.
          You should edit this file by hand.  The format consists of
          two white-space separated columns; the first contains the
          font-name pattern and the second contains aliases.  For more
          information on font-name pattern matching, refer to the X(X)
          manual page.

          When a font alias is used, mkfontdir searches for it and
          looks 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 special character), precede them with a back-slash:

          "\"font\name\" with quotes"   "magic-alias with spaces"
          fixed   regular-alias

          If the string FILE_NAMES_ALIASES stands alone on a line,
          each file name in the directory (stripped of its .snf
          suffix) is be used as an alias for that font.

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

     SEE ALSO



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