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Manual Pages for UNIX Operating System command usage for man groff_font

Standards, Environments, and Macros GROFF_FONT(5)

NAME

groff_font - format of groff device and font description

files

DESCRIPTION

The groff font format is roughly a superset of the ditroff font format. The font files for device name are stored in a directory devname. There are two types of file: a device description file called DESC and for each font F a font file called F. These are text files; unlike the ditroff font format, there is no associated binary format. DESC file format The DESC file can contain the following types of line as shown below. Later entries in the file override previous values. charset This line and everything following in the file are

ignored. It is allowed for the sake of backwards com-

patibility. family fam The default font family is fam. fonts n F1 F2 F3...Fn Fonts F1...Fn will be mounted in the font positions

m+1,...,m+n where m is the number of styles. This com-

mand may extend over more than one line. A font name of 0 will cause no font to be mounted on the corresponding font position. hor n The horizontal resolution is n machine units.

image_generator string

Needed for grohtml only. It specifies the program to generate PNG images from PostScript input. Under

GNU/Linux this is usually gs but under other systems (notably cygwin) it might be set to another name. paperlength n The physical vertical dimension of the output medium in machine units. This isn't used by troff itself but by output devices. Deprecated. Use papersize instead. papersize string Select a paper size. Valid values for string are the

ISO paper types A0-A7, B0-B7, C0-C7, D0-D7, DL, and the

US paper types letter, legal, tabloid, ledger, state-

ment, executive, com10, and monarch. Case is not sig-

nificant for string if it holds predefined paper types. Groff Version 1.19.2Last change: 21 October 2010 1

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Alternatively, string can be a file name (e.g. `/etc/papersize'); if the file can be opened, groff reads the first line and tests for the above paper sizes. Finally, string can be a custom paper size in the format length,width (no spaces before and after the comma). Both length and width must have a unit

appended; valid values are `i' for inches, `c' for cen-

timeters, `p' for points, and `P' for picas. Example: 12c,235p. An argument which starts with a digit is always treated as a custom paper format. papersize sets both the vertical and horizontal dimension of the output medium. More than one argument can be specified; groff scans from left to right and uses the first valid paper specification. paperwidth n The physical horizontal dimension of the output medium in machine units. Deprecated. Use papersize instead. This isn't used by troff itself but by output devices.

pass_filenames

Make troff tell the driver the source file name being processed. This is achieved by another tcommand: F filename. postpro program Use program as the postprocessor. prepro program Call program as a preprocessor. print program Use program as the spooler program for printing. If

omitted, the -l and -L options of groff are ignored.

res n There are n machine units per inch. sizes s1 s2...sn 0 This means that the device has fonts at s1, s2,...sn scaled points. The list of sizes must be terminated by

a 0. Each si can also be a range of sizes m-n. The

list can extend over more than one line. sizescale n The scale factor for pointsizes. By default this has a value of 1. One scaled point is equal to one point/n. The arguments to the unitwidth and sizes commands are given in scaled points. Groff Version 1.19.2Last change: 21 October 2010 2

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styles S1 S2...Sm The first m font positions will be associated with styles S1...Sm. tcommand This means that the postprocessor can handle the t and u output commands. unitwidth n Quantities in the font files are given in machine units for fonts whose point size is n scaled points.

unscaled_charwidths

Make the font handling module always return unscaled character widths. Needed for the grohtml device.

use_charnames_in_special

This command indicates that troff should encode named characters inside special commands. vert n The vertical resolution is n machine units. The res, unitwidth, fonts, and sizes lines are compulsory. Not all commands in the DESC file are used by troff itself; some of the keywords (or even additional ones) are used by

postprocessors to store arbitrary information about the dev-

ice. Here a list of obsolete keywords which are recognized by groff but completely ignored: spare1, spare2, biggestfont. Font file format A font file has two sections. The first section is a

sequence of lines each containing a sequence of blank delim-

ited words; the first word in the line is a key, and subse-

quent words give a value for that key. ligatures lig1 lig2...lign [0]

Characters lig1, lig2, ..., lign are ligatures; possi-

ble ligatures are ff, fi, fl, ffi and ffl. For back-

wards compatibility, the list of ligatures may be ter-

minated with a 0. The list of ligatures may not extend over more than one line. name F The name of the font is F. slant n The characters of the font have a slant of n degrees. (Positive means forward.) Groff Version 1.19.2Last change: 21 October 2010 3

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spacewidth n The normal width of a space is n. special The font is special; this means that when a character is requested that is not present in the current font, it will be searched for in any special fonts that are mounted.

Other commands are ignored by troff but may be used by post-

processors to store arbitrary information about the font in the font file. The first section can contain comments which start with the

# character and extend to the end of a line.

The second section contains one or two subsections. It must contain a charset subsection and it may also contain a kernpairs subsection. These subsections can appear in any order. Each subsection starts with a word on a line by itself. The word charset starts the charset subsection. The charset line is followed by a sequence of lines. Each line gives information for one character. A line comprises a number of fields separated by blanks or tabs. The format is

name metrics type code [entity_name] [-- comment]

name identifies the character: if name is a single charac-

ter c then it corresponds to the groff input character c; if it is of the form [rs]c where c is a single character, then it corresponds to the special character [rs][c]; otherwise it corresponds to the groff input character [rs][name]. If it is exactly two characters xx it can be entered as

[rs](xx. Note that single-letter special characters can't

be accessed as [rs]c; the only exception is `[rs]-' which is

identical to `[rs][-]'. The name --- is special and indi-

cates that the character is unnamed; such characters can only be used by means of the [rs]N escape sequence in troff.

Groff supports eight-bit characters; however some utilities

have difficulties with eight-bit characters. For this rea-

son, there is a convention that the name charn is equivalent to the single character whose code is n. For example, char163 would be equivalent to the character with code 163

which is the pounds sterling sign in ISO Latin-1.

The type field gives the character type: 1 means the character has a descender, for example, p; Groff Version 1.19.2Last change: 21 October 2010 4

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2 means the character has an ascender, for example, b;

3 means the character has both an ascender and a des-

cender, for example, (. The code field gives the code which the postprocessor uses to print the character. The character can also be input to groff using this code by means of the [rs]N escape sequence. The code can be any integer. If it starts with a 0 it will be interpreted as octal; if it starts with 0x or 0X it will be intepreted as hexadecimal. Note, however, that the [rs]N escape sequence only accepts a decimal integer.

The entity_name field gives an ascii string identifying the

glyph which the postprocessor uses to print the character. This field is optional and has been introduced so that the

html device driver can encode its character set. For exam-

ple, the character `[rs][Po]' is represented as `£' in html~4.0. Anything on the line after the encoding field resp. after

`--' will be ignored.

The metrics field has the form (in one line; it is broken here for the sake of readability):

width[,height[,depth[,italic-correction

[,left-italic-correction[,subscript-correction]]]]]

There must not be any spaces between these subfields. Miss-

ing subfields are assumed to be 0. The subfields are all

decimal integers. Since there is no associated binary for-

mat, these values are not required to fit into a variable of type char as they are in ditroff. The width subfields gives the width of the character. The height subfield gives the

height of the character (upwards is positive); if a charac-

ter does not extend above the baseline, it should be given a

zero height, rather than a negative height. The depth sub-

field gives the depth of the character, that is, the dis-

tance below the lowest point below the baseline to which the character extends (downwards is positive); if a character does not extend below above the baseline, it should be given

a zero depth, rather than a negative depth. The italic-

correction subfield gives the amount of space that should be

added after the character when it is immediately to be fol-

lowed by a character from a roman font. The left-italic-

correction subfield gives the amount of space that should be

added before the character when it is immediately to be pre-

ceded by a character from a roman font. The subscript-

correction gives the amount of space that should be added after a character before adding a subscript. This should be less than the italic correction. Groff Version 1.19.2Last change: 21 October 2010 5

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A line in the charset section can also have the format name "

This indicates that name is just another name for the char-

acter mentioned in the preceding line.

The word kernpairs starts the kernpairs section. This con-

tains a sequence of lines of the form: c1 c2 n This means that when character c1 appears next to character c2 the space between them should be increased by n. Most entries in kernpairs section will have a negative value for n. FILES

/usr/share/groff/1.19.2/font/devname/DESC Device description file for device name.

/usr/share/groff/1.19.2/font/devname/F Font file for font F of device name.

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri-

butes:

____________________________________________________________

| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |

|_____________________________|_____________________________|

| Availability | SUNWgroff |

|_____________________________|_____________________________|

| Interface stability | Uncommitted |

|_____________________________|_____________________________|

Manual Pages for UNIX Operating System command usage for man groff_font

NAME

groff_font - format of groff device and font description

DESCRIPTION

ATTRIBUTES

| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |

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