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FONT(6)								       FONT(6)

NAME
       font, subfont - external format for fonts and subfonts

SYNOPSIS
       #include <draw.h>

DESCRIPTION
       Fonts and subfonts are described in cachechars(2).

       External	 fonts	are  described	by  a plain text file that can be read
       using openfont.	The format of the file is a  header  followed  by  any
       number  of  subfont range specifications.  The header contains two num‐
       bers: the height and the ascent, both in pixels.	  The  height  is  the
       inter-line  spacing  and the ascent is the distance from the top of the
       line to the baseline.  These numbers are chosen to display consistently
       all  the	 subfonts of the font.	A subfont range specification contains
       two or three numbers and a file name.  The numbers  are	the  inclusive
       range  of  characters covered by the subfont, with an optional starting
       position within the subfont, and the file name names an	external  file
       suitable	 for  readsubfont  (see graphics(2)).  The minimum number of a
       covered range is mapped to the  specified  starting  position  (default
       zero)  of the corresponding subfont.  If the subfont file name does not
       begin with a slash, it is taken relative to  the	 directory  containing
       the  font file.	Each field must be followed by some white space.  Each
       numeric field may be C-format decimal, octal, or hexadecimal.

       External subfonts are represented in a more rigid format	 that  can  be
       read  and  written using readsubfont and writesubfont (see subfont(2)).
       The format for subfont files is: an image containing character  glyphs,
       followed	 by  a subfont header, followed by character information.  The
       image has the format for external image files  described	 in  image(6).
       The  subfont header has 3 decimal strings: n, height, and ascent.  Each
       number is right-justified and blank padded in 11	 characters,  followed
       by  a  blank.   The character info consists of n+1 6-byte entries, each
       giving the Fontchar x (2 bytes, low order  byte	first),	 top,  bottom,
       left, and width.	 The x field of the last Fontchar is used to calculate
       the image width of the previous character; the other fields in the last
       Fontchar are irrelevant.

       Note  that  the convention of using the character with value zero (NUL)
       to represent characters of zero width (see draw(2))  means  that	 fonts
       should have, as their zeroth character, one with non-zero width.

FILES
       /lib/font/bit/*
	      font directories

SEE ALSO
       graphics(2), draw(2), cachechars(2), subfont(2)

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