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	1 .TH FONTSRV 4
	2 .SH NAME
	3 fontsrv \- file system access to host fonts
	4 .SH SYNOPSIS
	5 .B fontsrv
	6 [
	7 .B -m
	8 .I mtpt
	9 ]
	10 [
	11 .B -s
	12 .I srvname
	13 ]
	14 .PP
	15 .B fontsrv
	16 .B -p
	17 .I path
	18 .SH DESCRIPTION
	19 .I Fontsrv
	20 presents the host window system's fonts
	21 in the standard Plan 9 format
	22 (see
	23 .MR font (7) ).
	24 It serves a virtual directory tree mounted at
	25 .I mtpt
	26 (if the
	27 .B -m
	28 option is given)
	29 and posted at
	30 .I srvname
	31 (default
	32 .IR font ).
	33 .PP
	34 The
	35 .B -p
	36 option changes
	37 .IR fontsrv 's
	38 behavior: rather than serve a file system,
	39 .I fontsrv
	40 prints to standard output the contents of the named
	41 .IR path .
	42 If
	43 .I path
	44 names a directory in the served file system,
	45 .I fontsrv
	46 lists the directory's contents.
	47 .PP
	48 The fonts are arranged in a two-level tree.
	49 The root contains directories named for each system font.
	50 Each font directory contains subdirectories named for
	51 a point size and whether the subfonts are anti-aliased:
	52 .B 10
	53 (bitmap)
	54 .BR 10a
	55 (anti-aliased greyscale)
	56 .BR 12 ,
	57 .BR 12a ,
	58 and so on.
	59 The font directory will synthesize additional sizes on
	60 demand: looking up
	61 .B 19a
	62 will synthesize the 19-point anti-aliased size
	63 if possible.
	64 Each size directory contains a
	65 .B font
	66 file and subfont files
	67 named
	68 .BR x0000.bit ,
	69 .BR x0020.bit ,
	70 and so on
	71 representing 32-character Unicode ranges.
	72 .PP
	73 .I Openfont
	74 (see
	75 .MR graphics (3) )
	76 recognizes font paths beginning with
	77 .B /mnt/font
	78 and implements them by invoking
	79 .IR fontsrv ;
	80 it need not be running already.
	81 See
	82 .MR font (7)
	83 for a full discussion of font name syntaxes.
	84 .SH EXAMPLES
	85 List the fonts on the system:
	86 .IP
	87 .EX
	88 % fontsrv &
	89 % 9p ls font
	90 .EE
	91 .LP
	92 or:
	93 .IP
	94 .EX
	95 % fontsrv -p .
	96 .EE
	97 .LP
	98 Run
	99 .MR acme (1)
	100 using the operating system's Monaco as the fixed-width font:
	101 .IP
	102 .EX
	103 % acme -F /mnt/font/Monaco/13a/font
	104 .EE
	105 .LP
	106 Run
	107 .MR sam (1)
	108 using the same font:
	109 .IP
	110 .EX
	111 % font=/mnt/font/Monaco/13a/font sam
	112 .EE
	113 .SH SOURCE
	114 .B \*9/src/cmd/fontsrv
	115 .SH SEE ALSO
	116 .MR font (7)
	117 .SH BUGS
	118 .PP
	119 Due to OS X restrictions,
	120 .I fontsrv
	121 does not fork itself into the background
	122 when serving a user-level file system.
	123 .PP
	124 .I Fontsrv
	125 has no support for X11 fonts;
	126 on X11 systems, it will serve an empty top-level directory.
	127 .PP
	128 On OS X, the anti-aliased bitmaps are not perfect.
	129 For example, the lower case r in the subfont
	130 .B Times-Roman/14a/x0000.bit
	131 appears truncated on the right and
	132 too light overall.