NAME
wsfontload —
load a font bitmap into the wsfont pool
or a wscons display device
SYNOPSIS
wsfontload |
[-Bbv] [-e
encoding] [-f
wsdev] [-h
height] [-N
name] [-w
width] [fontfile] |
DESCRIPTION
Thewsfontload 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.
-eencoding- Sets the encoding of the font. This can be either a symbolic 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
iso’ is assumed. - ‘
-fwsdev- Specify the device to operate on. Default is /dev/wsfont.
-hheight- Sets the height of a font character in pixels. Default is 16.
-Nname- 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.
-wwidth- 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
configuration file.
FILES
/etc/wscons.conf /usr/share/wscons/fonts
EXAMPLES
wsfontload -N myname -h 8 -e ibm
/usr/share/wscons/fonts/vt220l.808Load 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.816wsconsctl -dw
font=oratorLoad the “orator” IBM-encoded 8×16 font and switch the first console screen (ttyE0, wsconsctl's default) to this alternate font.
SEE ALSO
BUGS
Many features are missing.
There is no way to remove a loaded font.
There is no way to determine which fonts have been loaded.