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cgen(1) General Commands Manual cgen(1) NAME cgen - Generates UDC attributes files that are used by system utilities SYNOPSIS cgen [ -odl ] [ -pre ] [ -col ] [ -iks ] [ -bdf ] [ -pcf ] [ -code codeset ] [ -size fontsize ] [ -osiz fontsize ] [ -dpi 75|100 ] [ -fprop property ] [ -merge font-pattern ] [ -win userfont ] [ cadb ] FLAGS Creates ODL font files for all the supported codesets of the current language. Creates preload font files. Creates collating value tables. Creates input key sequence files. Creates BDF format DECwindows font files. Creates PCF format DECwindows font files. Sets the current codeset to codeset rather than the one in the current locale. With this flag, you can create attribute data files for a non-default code- set. Specifies the size of the fonts to be used for data file genera- tion. The fontsize value has the format widthxheight. By default, fonts of all available sizes are used for output file generation. Specifies the output size of the BDF and PCF font files. The fontsize value has the format widthxheight and, by default, is the same value specified for the -size flag. Use the -osiz flag together with the -size flag to specify a single font size to be processed and output for BDF and PCF files. Specifies the resolution, either 75dpi or 100dpi, of the generated fonts. Specifies the font properties or attributes that should be associated with the generated BDF and PCF font files. This flag is useful if you want to set special font properties in addi- tion to the default ones. The property_list parameter is one or more value assignments to property keywords, for example: -fprop "OWNERSHIP=DEC FOUNDRY=DECW" Font properties can also be added through direct editing of the output files. Merges the UDC font data into an existing PCF format font file that matches the specified font pattern, for example *-140-*jisx0208*. This flag must be used with the -pcf and -size flags because only one size is allowed per merge oper- ation. The fontconverter utility is called to do the actual merging. Therefore, the -merge flag works only if fontconverter is avail- able on the system. The name of the output PCF file has the following format: registry_width_height.pcf In this format, registry is the font registry field of the orig- inal PCF font file. Generates a font file with the name user- font, which can be copied to a Windows Version 3.1 or a Windows NT Version 3.5 system. You must also specify the -size flag be- cause only one size can apply to the specified userfont. Sup- ported codesets for font files created by the -win flag are big5 (for Chinese Windows systems), SJIS (for Japanese Windows sys- tems), and deckorean (for Korean Windows systems). PARAMETERS Specifies the character attribute database whose information is to be processed. If this parameter is not specified, the command tries to use ~/udc for a nonprivileged user and /var/i18n/udc for the superuser. DESCRIPTION The cgen command runs the character attributes file generator utility. This utility creates the following attribute data files from the at- tribute database for user-defined characters (UDCs): Font files for On- Demand Loading (ODL) Font files for preloading BDF and PCF format font files for DECwindows display Collating value tables for sorting Input key sequence files that determine how users enter UDCs If the command is run without any flags, it displays statistical infor- mation about the current character attribute database and does not cre- ate any files. The various data files created by the cgen utility are placed into dif- ferent locations according information in the cp_dirs database configu- ration file (see cp_dirs(4)). For each type of data file, there are two different locations: one for system manager (root) and the other for the normal users. The following table shows the default locations (when the cp_dirs file has not been changed): tab(@); lfHB lfHB lfHB l l l. _ Data File@System Location@User Location _ ODL font file@/var/i18n/odl@~/.odl Preload file@/var/i18n/fonts@~/.fonts BDF font file@/var/i18n/fonts@~/.fonts PCF font file@/var/i18n/fonts/[75|100]dpi@~/.fonts/[75|100]dpi Collat- ing table@/var/i18n/cdb@~/.cdb Input method table@/var/i18n/iks@~/.iks _ PCF font files are put into the 75dpi or 100dpi subdirectories, depend- ing on the resolution that you specify when running the command. RELATED INFORMATION Commands: cedit(1), fontconverter(1X) Files: cp_dirs(4) Writing Software for the International Market delim off cgen(1)