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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 confi-
     guration 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 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 .snf suf-
     fix) 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)).





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





















































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