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Diffstat (limited to 'xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/fonts.sgml')
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diff --git a/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/fonts.sgml b/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/fonts.sgml index 119cd0838..f4cfe4f77 100644 --- a/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/fonts.sgml +++ b/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/fonts.sgml @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ <date>5 March 2000</date> <ident> -$XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/fonts.sgml,v 1.7 2000/03/06 22:59:25 dawes Exp $ +$XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/fonts.sgml,v 1.8 2000/11/14 16:54:49 dawes Exp $ </ident> <toc> @@ -354,9 +354,9 @@ example, <p>mulearabic-2 encodings/mulearabic-2.enc </tscreen> -Note that the name of an encoding must be specified in the encoding -file's STARTENCODING or ALIAS line. It is not enough to create an -`<tt/encodings.dir/' entry. +Note that the name of an encoding <it/must/ be specified in the +encoding file's STARTENCODING or ALIAS line. It is not enough to +create an `<tt/encodings.dir/' entry. If your platform supports it (it probably does), encoding files may be compressed or gzipped. @@ -405,10 +405,25 @@ should be <tscreen> SIZE 0x75 0x80 </tscreen> -Codes outside the region defined by the size line are supposed to be -undefined. Encodings default to linear encoding with a size of 256 -(0x100). This means that you must declare the size of all 16 bit -encodings. +In the case of a matrix encoding, a `<tt/FIRSTINDEX/' may be included +to specify the minimum glyph index in an encoding. The keyword +`<tt/FIRSTINDEX/' is followed by two integers, the minimum row number +followed by the minimum column number: +<tscreen> +FIRSTINDEX 0x20 0x20 +</tscreen> +In the case of a linear encoding, a `<tt/FIRSTINDEX/' line should +usually not be included. If for some reason however it is desired +that it should be included, it should be followed by a single integer. + +Note that in some font backends inclusion of a `<tt/FIRSTINDEX/' line +has the side effect of disabling default glyph generation, and this +keyword should therefore be avoided unless absolutely necessary. + +Codes outside the region defined by the `<tt/SIZE/' and +`<tt/FIRSTINDEX/' lines are supposed to be undefined. Encodings +default to linear encoding with a size of 256 (0x100). This means +that you must declare the size of all 16 bit encodings. What follows is one or more mapping sections. A mapping section starts with a `<tt/STARTMAPPING/' line stating the target of the mapping. |