ADDFTINFO
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 4 November 2014
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NAME
addftinfo - add information to troff font files for use with groff
SYNOPSIS
addftinfo
[
-v
]
[
param-option value...
]
res
unitwidth
font
DESCRIPTION
addftinfo
reads a troff font file and adds some additional font-metric
information that is used by the groff system.
The font file with the information added is written on the standard
output.
The information added is guessed using some parametric information
about the font and assumptions about the traditional troff names for
characters.
The main information added is the heights and depths of characters.
The
res
and
unitwidth
arguments should be the same as the corresponding parameters in the
DESC file;
font
is the name of the file describing the font;
if
font
ends with
I
the font will be assumed to be italic.
OPTIONS
-v
prints the version number.
All other options change one of the parameters that are used to derive
the heights and depths.
Like the existing quantities in the font file, each
value
is in
inches/res
for a font whose point size is
unitwidth.
param-option
must be one of:
- -x-height
-
The height of lowercase letters without ascenders such as x.
- -fig-height
-
The height of figures (digits).
- -asc-height
-
The height of characters with ascenders, such as b, d or l.
- -body-height
-
The height of characters such as parentheses.
- -cap-height
-
The height of uppercase letters such as A.
- -comma-depth
-
The depth of a comma.
- -desc-depth
-
The depth of characters with descenders, such as p, q, or y.
- -body-depth
-
The depth of characters such as parentheses.
addftinfo
makes no attempt to use the specified parameters to guess the
unspecified parameters.
If a parameter is not specified the default will be used.
The defaults are chosen to have the reasonable values for a Times
font.
SEE ALSO
groff_font(5),
groff(1),
groff_char(7)
Watch a man-page
name(n)
with
-
man n name
in text mode and with
-
groffer n name
in graphical mode (PDF, etc.).
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