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 NAME     
 |  |  |  | fontsrv – file system access to host fonts 
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 SYNOPSIS     
 |  |  |  | fontsrv [ −m mtpt ] [ −s srvname ] 
    
    
    fontsrv −p path 
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 DESCRIPTION     
 |  |  |  | Fontsrv presents the host window system’s fonts in the standard
    Plan 9 format (see font(7)). It serves a virtual directory tree
    mounted at mtpt (if the −m option is given) and posted at srvname
    (default font). 
    
    
    The −p option changes fontsrv’s behavior: rather than serve a
    file system, fontsrv prints to standard output the contents of
    the named path. If path names a directory in the served file system,
    fontsrv lists the directory’s contents. 
    
    
    The fonts are arranged in a two-level tree. The root contains
    directories named for each system font. Each font directory contains
    subdirectories named for a point size and whether the subfonts
    are anti-aliased: 10 (bitmap) 10a (anti-aliased greyscale) 12,
    12a, and so on. The font directory will synthesize additional
    sizes on demand: looking up 19a
    will synthesize the 19-point anti-aliased size if possible. Each
    size directory contains a font file and subfont files named x0000.bit,
    x0100.bit, and so on representing 256-character Unicode ranges.
    
    
    
    Openfont (see graphics(3)) recognizes font paths beginning with
    /mnt/font and implements them by invoking fontsrv; it need not
    be running already. See font(7) for a full discussion of font
    name syntaxes. 
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 EXAMPLES     
 |  |  |  | List the fonts on the system: or:
 Run acme(1) using the operating system’s Monaco as the fixed-width
    font:
 
 Run sam(1) using the same font:|  |  |  | % acme −F /mnt/font/Monaco/13a/font 
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 |  |  |  | % font=/mnt/font/Monaco/13a/font sam 
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 BUGS     
 |  |  |  | Due to OS X restrictions, fontsrv does not fork itself into the
    background when serving a user-level file system. 
    
    
    Fontsrv has no support for X11 fonts; on X11 systems, it will
    serve an empty top-level directory. 
    
    
    On OS X, the anti-aliased bitmaps are not perfect. For example,
    the lower case r in the subfont Times−Roman/14a/x0000.bit appears
    truncated on the right and too light overall. 
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