1 .TH ADDFTINFO @MAN1EXT@ "@MDATE@" "groff @VERSION@"
3 addftinfo \- add information to troff font files for use with groff
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72 reads a troff font file and adds some additional font-metric
73 information that is used by the groff system.
75 The font file with the information added is written on the standard
78 The information added is guessed using some parametric information
79 about the font and assumptions about the traditional troff names for
82 The main information added is the heights and depths of characters.
88 arguments should be the same as the corresponding parameters in the
91 is the name of the file describing the font;
96 the font will be assumed to be italic.
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104 prints the version number.
108 All other options change one of the parameters that are used to derive
109 the heights and depths.
111 Like the existing quantities in the font file, each
115 for a font whose point size is
123 The height of lowercase letters without ascenders such as x.
127 The height of figures (digits).
131 The height of characters with ascenders, such as b, d or l.
135 The height of characters such as parentheses.
139 The height of uppercase letters such as A.
143 The depth of a comma.
147 The depth of characters with descenders, such as p, q, or y.
151 The depth of characters such as parentheses.
156 makes no attempt to use the specified parameters to guess the
157 unspecified parameters.
159 If a parameter is not specified the default will be used.
161 The defaults are chosen to have the reasonable values for a Times
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169 .BR groff_font (@MAN5EXT@),
170 .BR groff (@MAN1EXT@),
171 .BR groff_char (@MAN7EXT@)
175 You can view a man page
183 in text mode and with
186 .BI "groffer" " n name"
189 in graphical mode (PDF, etc.).
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