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FONT(5) File Formats Manual FONT(5) NAME font - description files for troff DESCRIPTION Directories /usr/lib/font/devdest describe typesetters, where dest is as in the -T option of troff(1). Such directories contain files named as in FILES below. Lines of a typesetter description in file have the following forms. res n Resolution of device is n basic units per inch. hor n Horizontal motion occurs in increments of n units. vert n Vertical motion occurs in increments of n units. unitwidth n Widths are given for pointsize n. sizescale n Scaling for fractional pointsizes, not used. paperwidth n Width of paper is n units. paperlength n Length of paper is n units. biggestfont n Maximum number of characters in a font is n. sizes n n n ... 0 Pointsizes n ... are available. fonts n name ... Number of initial fonts followed by their names, for example fonts 4 R I B S charset This line comes last, followed by a list of special character names for the device, separated by spaces or newlines, as bu for \(bu Lines of a font description file have the following forms. name name name of the font, such as R or CW internalname name The typesetter's name for the font, independent of the troff name or font position. special A troff special font, logically part of all non-special fonts. ligatures name ... 0 The named ligatures are available. Legal names are ff fi fl ffi ffl. spacewidth n Space is n units wide (default 1/3 of an em). charset Must come last. Each line following charset describes one char- acter thus: name width height code Name is either a single ASCII character or a special character listed in Width is in basic units. Height is 1 if the character descends below the baseline, 2 if it rises above the letter `a', 3 if it both rises and descends, 0 for neither. Code is the number sent to the typesetter to produce the character. If a character name is a synonym for the preceding one, its width, height, and code may be replaced by one double quote ". Lines beginning with # are comments in both DESC and font description files. Troff and its postprocessors use the binary versions as compiled by a program makedev. FILES typesetter description directory typesetter description (ASCII) typesetter description (binary); created by makedev font description of the named font (ASCII) font.out description of the named font (binary); created by makedev SEE ALSO troff(1) B. W. Kernighan, `A Typesetter-Independent Troff', this manual, Volume 2 FONT(5)