Ubuntu Manpage: g.mkfontcap - Generates the font configuration file by scanning various directories for fonts.

NAME

       g.mkfontcap  - Generates the font configuration file by scanning various directories for fonts.

KEYWORDS

       general

SYNOPSIS

       g.mkfontcap
       g.mkfontcap --help
       g.mkfontcap [-s]  [extradirs=string]   [--help]  [--verbose]  [--quiet]  [--ui]

   Flags:
       -s
           Write font configuration file to standard output instead of $GISBASE/etc

       --help
           Print usage summary

       --verbose
           Verbose module output

       --quiet
           Quiet module output

       --ui
           Force launching GUI dialog

   Parameters:
       extradirs=string
           List of extra directories to scan
           Comma-separated  list  of  extra  directories  to  scan  for Freetype-compatible fonts as well as the
           defaults (see documentation)

DESCRIPTION

g.mkfontcap is a utility to generate a GRASS font configuration file ("fontcap") containing details of
the fonts available on the current system. If Freetype is not installed, the font list will be limited
to the set of Hershey stroke fonts supplied with GRASS. With Freetype enabled however, the module will
recursively scan all files within a predefined hierarchy to find Freetype-compatible scalable fonts. The
list of directories scanned is currently:
/usr/lib/X11/fonts
/usr/share/X11/fonts
/usr/share/fonts
/usr/local/share/fonts
${HOME}/Library/Fonts
/Library/Fonts
/System/Library/Fonts
${WINDIR}/Fonts

These correspond to directories where fonts can be found on some common operating systems. Extra
directories to search can easily by added using the extradirs parameter, which accepts a comma-separated
list. An extra directory may optionally contain an environment variable at the start of the string, if
enclosed in ${xxx} syntax (see examples above).

The module will normally write to the standard fontcap file location, $GISBASE/etc/fontcap. If the
environment variable GRASS_FONT_CAP is set, the output will instead be written to the file specified by
that variable. This is useful if you don’t have permission to modify $GISBASE/etc/fontcap: in this case
you can use e.g.
# use local file version instead of system copy
GRASS_FONT_CAP=$HOME/.gfontcap
export GRASS_FONT_CAP
g.mkfontcap

to create a personal copy and then to make GRASS use that file instead of the system copy.

The output list of fonts is sorted first by type (Stroke fonts first, followed by Freetype) and within
each type by the short name of the font.

AUTHOR

       Paul Kelly

SOURCE CODE