NAME

       d.font  - Selects the font in which text will be displayed on the user's graphics monitor.

KEYWORDS

       display, setup

SYNOPSIS

       d.font
       d.font help
       d.font [-lL]  [font=string]   [path=string]   [charset=string]   [--verbose]  [--quiet]

   Flags:
       -l
           List fonts

       -L
           List fonts verbosely

       --verbose
           Verbose module output

       --quiet
           Quiet module output

   Parameters:
       font=string
           Choose new current font
           Default: romans

       path=string
           Path to Freetype-compatible font including file name

       charset=string
           Character encoding
           Default: UTF-8

DESCRIPTION

       d.font allows the user to select use of a specific text font for display of text on the graphics monitor.
       If the user does not specify a font when using other GRASS programs that  display  text,  the  font  type
       romans is used by default.

       The  user  can  run this program either non-interactively or interactively.  If the user specifies a font
       type name on the command line the program will run non-interactively.  Alternately, the user  can  simply
       type  d.font  on the command line; in this case, the program will prompt the user for a display text font
       type.

       Parameter:

       font=name
              Name of a font type, from among the font types italicized below.
              Default: romans
              Options: (italized)
              cyrilc Cyrillic
              gothgbt Gothic Great Britain triplex
              gothgrt Gothic German triplex
              gothitt Gothic Italian triplex
              greekc Greek complex
              greekcs Greek complex script
              greekp Greek plain
              greeks Greek simplex
              italicc Italian complex
              italiccs Italian complex small
              italict Italian triplex
              romanc Roman complex
              romancs Roman complex small
              romand Roman duplex
              romanp Roman plain
              romans Roman simplex
              romant Roman triplex
              scriptc Script complex
              scripts Script simplex

NOTES

       The font type romans is the fastest font type to display to the graphics monitor.

SEE ALSO

       d.text
       d.text.freetype
       d.font.freetype
       d.title

AUTHOR

       James Westervelt, U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory

       d.font uses the public domain version of the Hershey Fonts created by Dr. A.V. Hershey while  working  at
       the U.S. National Bureau of Standards.

       Last changed: $Date: 2012-01-17 02:53:01 -0800 (Tue, 17 Jan 2012) $

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