NAME

       mkfontscale - create an index of scalable font files for X

SYNOPSIS

       mkfontscale  [  -b  ]  [  -s  ] [ -o filename ] [ -x suffix ] [ -a encoding ] ... [ -f fuzz ] [ -l ] [ -e
       directory ] [ -p prefix ] [ -r prefix ] [ -n prefix ] [ -u | -U ] [ -v ] [ -- ] [ directory ] ...

DESCRIPTION

       For each directory argument, mkfontscale reads all of the scalable font  files  in  the  directory.   For
       every  font  file found, an X11 font name (XLFD) is generated, and is written together with the file name
       to a file fonts.scale in the directory.

       The resulting fonts.scale file should be checked and possibly manually edited before being used as  input
       for the mkfontdir(1) program.

OPTIONS

       -b     read bitmap fonts.  By default, bitmap fonts are ignored.

       -s     ignore scalable fonts.  By default, scalable fonts are read.  If -b is set, this flag has the side
              effect of enabling the reading of fonts.scale files.

       -o filename
              send program output to filename; default is fonts.scale if bitmap fonts are not  being  read,  and
              fonts.dir  if  they are.  If filename is relative, it is created in the directory being processed.
              If it is the special value -, output is written to standard output.

       -x suffix
              exclude all files with the specified suffix.

       -a encoding
              add encoding to the list of encodings searched for.

       -f fuzz
              set the fraction of characters that may be missing in large encodings to fuzz  percent.   Defaults
              to 2%.

       -l     Write  fonts.dir  files  suitable  for  implementations that cannot reencode legacy fonts (BDF and
              PCF).  By default, it is assumed that  the  implementation  can  reencode  Unicode-encoded  legacy
              fonts.

       -e     specifies  a  directory  with encoding files.  Every such directory is scanned for encoding files,
              the list of which is then written to an "encodings.dir" file in every font directory.

       -p     Specifies a prefix that is prepended to the encoding file path names when they are written to  the
              "encodings.dir"  file.  The prefix is prepended literally: if a `/' is required between the prefix
              and the path names, it must be supplied explicitly as part of the prefix.

       -r     Keep non-absolute encoding directories in their relative form  when  writing  the  "encodings.dir"
              file.   The  default  is  to  convert  relative  encoding  directories  to absolute directories by
              prepending the current directory.  The positioning of this options is significant, as this  option
              only applies to subsequent -e options.

       -n     do  not  scan for fonts, do not write font directory files.  This option is useful when generating
              encoding directories only.

       -u, -U disable (-u) or enable (-U) indexing of ISO 10646:1 font encodings (default: enabled).

       -v     print program version and exit.

       --     end of options.

SEE ALSO

       X(7), Xserver(1), mkfontdir(1), ttmkfdir(1), xfs(1), xset(1)

NOTES

       The format of the fonts.scale, fonts.dir and encodings.dir files is documented in the mkfontdir(1) manual
       page.

       Mkfontscale will overwrite any fonts.scale file even if it has been hand-edited.

       mkfontscale -b -s -l is equivalent to mkfontdir.

AUTHOR

       The  version  of  mkfontscale included in this X.Org Foundation release was originally written by Juliusz
       Chroboczek <jch@freedesktop.org> for the XFree86 project.  The functionality of this program was inspired
       by the ttmkfdir utility by Joerg Pommnitz.