NAME¶
update-fonts-alias - compile fonts.alias files
SYNOPSIS¶
update-fonts-alias [
OPTION]
directory ...
DESCRIPTION¶
update-fonts-alias assembles a
fonts.alias file in an X font
directory using one or more alias files found in a subdirectory of
/etc/X11/fonts/. It is typically invoked only from the
post-installation and post-removal scripts of a
package containing X
Window System fonts that provide aliases for their XLFD names, but may be
invoked at any time to reconstruct
fonts.alias files. For each
directory, which is simply the last component of its path (such as
‘75dpi’ or ‘misc’),
update-fonts-alias will
assemble either
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/directory
/fonts.alias or
/usr/share/fonts/X11/directory
/fonts.alias from the files found
in
/etc/X11/fonts/directory
/package
.alias.
This enables multiple packages to provide aliases for fonts in the same
directory. No font package actually provides the
fonts.alias file in
the X font directory itself, so there is no danger of overwriting one
package's aliases with those of another.
For instance, the two packages ‘xfonts-base’ and
‘xfonts-base-transcoded’ may both install fonts into the directory
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc. They each place their
fonts.alias files
in
/etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias and
/etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base-transcoded.alias (respectively).
update-fonts-alias concatenates these two files (as well as any others
that match
/etc/X11/fonts/misc/*.alias) into
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias.
The format of
fonts.alias files is described in the
mkfontdir(1x)
manual page.
An example of how to use
update-fonts-alias in package maintainer scripts
is provided in the Debian Policy Manual.
OPTIONS¶
-h, --help displays a brief usage message and exits.
OPERANDS¶
update-fonts-alias takes one or more X font directory names to operate on
as operands. Only the final path component of the directory name should be
specified; e.g.,
update-fonts-alias 75dpi
is correct, while ‘
update-fonts-alias
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi’ and ‘
update-fonts-alias
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi’ are not.
ENVIRONMENT¶
- COLUMNS
- indicates the width of the terminal device in character
cells. This value is used for formatting diagnostic messages. If not set,
the terminal is queried using stty(1) to determine its width. If
that fails, a value of ‘80’ is assumed.
DIAGNOSTICS¶
Errors¶
- usage error: one or more font directories must be
provided
- update-fonts-alias was invoked without operands.
Supply one or more X font directory names to operate on.
- usage error: unrecognized option
- update-fonts-alias was invoked with an unrecognized
option argument. Use only the options documented in “OPTIONS”,
above.
- fatal error: path to X font directory must be
used
- A directory name was supplied that was not an X font
directory name. Supply X font directory names only.
Warnings¶
- warning: absolute path directory was
provided
- Usage of absolute paths is deprecated. Use only the final
component of the X font directory name for directory.
- warning: directory does not exist or is
not a directory
- The supplied directory was invalid.
update-fonts-alias skipped it.
EXIT STATUS¶
- 0
- update-fonts-alias ran successfully.
- 1
- update-fonts-alias experienced a fatal error; see
the section on diagnostic messages above.
- 2
- update-fonts-alias was invoked with invalid
arguments.
BUGS¶
See the Debian Bug Tracking System ⟨URL:
http://bugs.debian.org/xfonts-utils ⟩. If you wish to report a bug in
update-fonts-alias, please see
/usr/share/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt or the
reportbug(1)
command.
AUTHOR¶
update-fonts-alias was written by Branden Robinson.
SEE ALSO¶
mkfontdir(1x)
