Fwd: [9fans] fontsrv
Russ Cox
Subject: Fonts
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From: Russ Cox <r...@swtch.com>
Date: Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:25 PM
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9f...@9fans.net>
This conversation reminded me that I have been
meaning to clean up a program I wrote a while back
and integrate it into plan9port. It generates Plan 9
bitmap fonts on demand using the native window
system fonts. Right now it only works on OS X.
I would gladly accept X11 support and OS X bug fixes.
FONTSRV(4) FONTSRV(4)
NAME
fontsrv - file system access to host fonts
SYNOPSIS
fontsrv [ -m mtpt ] [ -s srvname ]
fontsrv -p path
DESCRIPTION
Fontsrv presents the host window system's fonts in the stan-
dard Plan 9 format (see font(7)). It serves a virtual direc-
tory tree mounted at mtpt (if the -m option is given) and
posted at srvname (default font).
The -p option changes fontsrv's behavior: rather than serve
a file system, fontsrv prints to standard output the con-
tents of the named path. If path names a directory in the
served file system, fontsrv lists the directory's contents.
The fonts are arranged in a two-level tree. The root con-
tains directories named for each system font. Each font
directory contains subdirectories named for a point size and
whether the subfonts are anti-aliased: 10 (bitmap) 10a
(anti-aliased greyscale) 12, 12a, and so on. The font
directory will synthesize additional sizes on demand: look-
ing up 19a will synthesize the 19-point anti-aliased size if
possible. Each size directory contains a font file and sub-
font files named x0000.bit, x0100.bit, and so on represent-
ing 256-character Unicode ranges.
Openfont (see graphics(3)) recognizes font paths beginning
with /mnt/font and implements them by invoking fontsrv; it
need not be running already.
EXAMPLES
List the fonts on the system:
% fontsrv &
% 9p ls font
or:
% fontsrv -p .
Run acme(1) using the operating system's Monaco as the
fixed-width font:
% acme -F /mnt/font/Monaco/13a/font
Run sam(1) using the same font:
% font=/mnt/font/Monaco/13a/font sam
SOURCE
/usr/local/plan9/src/cmd/fontsrv
SEE ALSO
font(7)
BUGS
Due to OS X restrictions, fontsrv does not fork itself into
the background when serving a user-level file system.
Fontsrv has no support for X11 fonts; on X11 systems, it
will serve an empty top-level directory.
On OS X, the anti-aliased bitmaps are not perfect. For
example, the lower case r in the subfont
Times-Roman/14a/x0000.bit appears truncated on the right and
too light overall.
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From: David Leimbach <lei...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 2:01 PM
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9f...@9fans.net>
Just tried this from the mercurial snapshot from last night.
fontsrv appears to work but complains about fuse not being set up properly.
Does this mean acme is not going to work?
Should I be asking this on the plan9port mailing list?
Russ Cox
> fontsrv appears to work but complains about fuse not being set up properly.
> Does this mean acme is not going to work?
Devdraw invokes fontsrv using the -p flag to
avoid requiring FUSE.
If you run
fontsrv -p .
and it prints a list of fonts, then you're all set,
FUSE or no FUSE.
Try the examples from the man page; they
should just work.
Russ
David Leimbach
Thanks. Will do.
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