WSFONTLOAD(8) BSD System Manager's Manual WSFONTLOAD(8)NAMEwsfontload — load a font bitmap into the wsfont pool or a wscons display
device
SYNOPSISwsfontload [-Bbv] [-e encoding] [-f wsdev] [-h height] [-N name]
[-w width] [fontfile]
DESCRIPTION
The wsfontload utility loads a font bitmap into the wsfont font pool (or
a wscons device if the device driver supports this). The font gets
assigned a name in this process which it can be referred to by later for
use on a display screen. The font is loaded from the specified fontfile,
or from standard input if fontfile is not provided.
The options are:
-B Specifies that the font data is ordered right-to-left byte
wise. The default is left-to-right.
-b Specifies that the font data is ordered right-to-left bit
wise. The default is left-to-right.
-e encoding Sets the encoding of the font. This can be either a sym‐
bolic abbreviation or a numeric value. Currently recognized
abbreviations are:
‘iso’ ISO-8859-1 encoding
‘ibm’ IBM encoded fonts
‘pcvt’ the custom encoding of the supplemental fonts which
came with the BSD “pcvt” console driver
‘iso2’ ISO-8859-2 (east european) encoding
‘iso7’ ISO-8859-7 (greek) encoding
‘koi8r’ KOI8-R (russian) encoding
Per default, ‘iso’ is assumed.
-f wsdev Specify the device to operate on. Default is /dev/wsfont.
-h height Sets the height of a font character in pixels. Default is
16.
-N name Specifies a name which can be used later to refer to the
font. If none is given, the fontfile name is used to create
one.
-v Prints the font's properties before loading it.
-w width Sets the width of a font character in pixels. Default is 8.
Typically, the wsfontload utility will be executed in system startup by
the /etc/rc.d/wscons script, controlled by the /etc/wscons.conf configu‐
ration file.
FILES
/etc/wscons.conf /usr/share/wscons/fonts
EXAMPLESwsfontload-N myname -h 8 -e ibm /usr/share/wscons/fonts/vt220l.808
Load the IBM-encoded 8×8-font from the wscons(4) distribution. This (or
another 8×8-font) is necessary to use the 50-line screen type on vga(4)
displays.
wsfontload-N orator -e ibm /usr/share/wscons/fonts/orator.816
wsconsctl -dw font=orator
Load the “orator” IBM-encoded 8×16 font and switch the first console
screen (ttyE0, wsconsctl's default) to this alternate font.
SEE ALSOwscons(4), wsconscfg(8), wsconsctl(8)BUGS
Many features are missing.
There is no way to remove a loaded font.
BSD May 4, 2003 BSD