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STCONV(1M)							    STCONV(1M)

NAME
       stconv - Utility to convert scalable type symbol set map formats

SYNOPSIS
       stconv infile [-hmq] [-d mapdir] [-to ACG|HPMSL|other]

DESCRIPTION
       Intellifont font technology has been obsoleted on HP's X Window System.
       Support for it will be removed in a future release.  This utility  will
       be removed at that time.

       The stconv utility is used to convert scalable typeface symbol set maps
       (.sym files) for Intellifont fonts from one symbol list numbering  for‐
       mat to another.	The installation default symbol sets map their respec‐
       tive symbols into appropriate HP Master	Symbol	List  character	 codes
       (the  default format provided in .ifo typeface libraries).  Since it is
       possible, however, to use stload(1M) to generate	 .ifo  libraries  that
       use  some other symbol list numbering (such as native Agfa Compugraphic
       ACG numbering), stconv provides a way to modify existing .sym files  to
       map characters to non-MSL numbers.

       A symbol list assigns a unique numeric value to each individual charac‐
       ter in the global collection of characters available  from  a  specific
       typeface	 manufacturer.	 The specific numbering scheme used is usually
       unique to that vendor, and typically identifies hundreds or even	 thou‐
       sands  of  characters.	A symbol set (or character set) is generally a
       particular subset of characters taken from this master collection, with
       each  character	being  assigned another unique code in accordance with
       the some specific registry/encoding scheme (such as ISO8859 Latin-1  or
       HP  Roman-8).   In this respect, the .sym files used by the HP Scalable
       Type subsystem are actually symbol set maps, equating all the character
       codes comprising a specific character set registry/encoding to the cor‐
       responding character numbers of a particular typeface  vendor's	symbol
       list.

       Intellifont  format scalable typeface libraries are commercially avail‐
       able with HP Master Symbol List character numbering (HPMSL) in products
       obtained	 from  the  HP	MasterType Library, and with Agfa Compugraphic
       symbol list  numbering  (ACG)  for  products  from  the	Agfa  Typeface
       Library.

OPTIONS
       There are several command line parameters which are described below.

       infile  Required name of the .sym file to be converted.

       -d mapdir
	       Specifies  the name of the directory containing the symbol list
	       conversion map (see below).  This directory should contain  the
	       file  ACG-HPMSL, plus any optional additional symbol list maps.
	       If  unspecified,	 stconv	 looks	for  an	 appropriate  map   in
	       /usr/lib/X11/fonts/stadmin/ifo/charsets.	  The  file  ACG-HPMSL
	       defines the translation between Agfa Compugraphic  symbol  list
	       numbering and HP Master Symbol List numbering.

       -h      Requests help.

       -m      Requests that stconv list the conversion map.

       -q      Requests that stconv should run quietly.

       -to format
	       Specifies the new symbol list format.  The installation-default
	       symbol sets use HPMSL format; to	 generate  a  symbol  set  for
	       native  Agfa  Compugraphic  symbol  list	 character  codes, you
	       should specify -to ACG.

EXAMPLES
       stconv -to ACG roman8.sym >acgr8.sym
	       This reads the HPMSL symbol map roman8.sym, and writes the  ACG
	       version	to  acgr8.sym  via stdout redirection.	The new symbol
	       map can subsequently be used to generate	 an  HP	 Roman-8  font
	       from an Agfa Typeface Library product.

SYMBOL LIST CONVERSION MAPS
       A  symbol list conversion map defines the translation of character num‐
       bers between two different symbol lists.	 The map is a simple text file
       contain	two  columns of character codes: the first column is the first
       format's character code, the second column is the second format's char‐
       acter  code.   Lines  that  begin with anything other than two distinct
       values are ignored.  The name of the conversion must be	the  names  of
       the  two	 formats concantenated together with a hyphen, with care taken
       to insure the name before the hyphen reflects the numbering scheme used
       in the first column, and the name after the hyphen reflects the number‐
       ing scheme used in the second column.  A single conversion map file  is
       sufficient  for converting a symbol list of either format into a symbol
       list of the opposite format.  As an example, the first few lines of the
       file ACG-HPMSL are:

		# ACG-HPMSL
		# First column is ACG number
		# Second column is corresponding HPMSL number
		1   86
		2   81
		3   74
		4   80

FILES
       Stconv  takes input only from the specified file, and always sends out‐
       put to stdout.

NOTE
       Stconv supports only the	 .sym  files  used  for	 Intellifont  scalable
       fonts, and has no application to other types of scalable fonts (such as
       Type 1).

SEE ALSO
       stlicense(1M), stmkfont(1), stmkdirs(1), stload(1M)

COPYRIGHT
       (c) Copyright 1990, Hewlett-Packard Company
       See X(1) for a full statement of rights and permissions.

X Version 11			   Release 5			    STCONV(1M)
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