Attachment 10691 Details for Bug 11566 – patch for Xserver manpage

[patch] patch for Xserver manpage

0002-Add-Xserver-man-section-about-catalogue-dir-FPE.patch (text/plain), 2.74 KB, created by Ademar Reis on 2007-07-12 10:02:26 UTC

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>From 125560db4c99ec9b31a730ca6047bd42206ba7cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>From: Ademar de Souza Reis Jr <ademar@mandriva.com.br>
>Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 13:44:28 -0300
>Subject: [PATCH] Add Xserver man section about catalogue:<dir> FPE
>
>catalogue:<dir> FPEs were introduced in libXfont 1.2.9
>---
> doc/Xserver.man.pre |   40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> 1 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/doc/Xserver.man.pre b/doc/Xserver.man.pre
>index aac3b51..c9ee019 100644
>--- a/doc/Xserver.man.pre
>+++ b/doc/Xserver.man.pre
>@@ -508,8 +508,7 @@ its parent process after it has set up the various connection schemes.
> \fIXdm\fP uses this feature to recognize when connecting to the server
> is possible.
> .SH FONTS
>-The X server
>-can obtain fonts from directories and/or from font servers.
>+The X server can obtain fonts from directories and/or from font servers.
> The list of directories and font servers
> the X server uses when trying to open a font is controlled
> by the \fIfont path\fP.  
>@@ -517,8 +516,45 @@ by the \fIfont path\fP.
> The default font path is
> __default_font_path__ .
> .LP
>+A special kind of directory can be specified using the the \fBcatalogue\fP:
>+prefix. Directories specified this way can contain symlinks pointing to the
>+real font directories. See the FONTPATH.D section for details.
>+.LP
> The font path can be set with the \fB\-fp\fP option or by \fIxset\fP(1)
> after the server has started.
>+.SH "FONTPATH.D"
>+You can specify a special kind of font path in the form \fBcatalogue:<dir>\fR.
>+The directory specified after the catalogue: prefix will be scanned for symlinks
>+and each symlink destination will be added as a local fontfile FPE.
>+.PP
>+The symlink can be suffixed by attributes such as '\fBunscaled\fR', which
>+will be passed through to the underlying fontfile FPE. The only exception is
>+the newly introduced '\fBpri\fR' attribute, which will be used for ordering
>+the font paths specified by the symlinks.
>+
>+An example configuration:
>+
>+.nf
>+    75dpi:unscaled:pri=20 \-> /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi
>+    ghostscript:pri=60 \-> /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript
>+    misc:unscaled:pri=10 \-> /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc
>+    type1:pri=40 \-> /usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1
>+    type1:pri=50 \-> /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1
>+.fi
>+
>+This will add /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc as the first FPE with the attribute
>+'unscaled', second FPE will be /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi, also with
>+the attribute unscaled etc. This is functionally equivalent to setting
>+the following font path:
>+
>+.nf
>+    /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,
>+    /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
>+    /usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1,
>+    /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1,
>+    /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript
>+.fi
>+
> .SH FILES
> .TP 30
> .I /etc/X\fBn\fP.hosts
>-- 
>1.5.2.2
>

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