wsfontload —
load a font bitmap into a wscons display device
wsfontload |
[-Bbl]
[-e encoding]
[-f file]
[-h height]
[-N name]
[-w width]
[fontfile] |
The
wsfontload utility loads a font bitmap to a wscons
device if the device driver supports it. 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
stdin if
fontfile is not
provided.
The options are as follows:
-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.
-e
encoding- Sets the encoding of the font. This can be either a symbolic abbreviation
or a numeric value. Currently recognized abbreviations are
“iso” for ISO 8859-1 or ISO-10646 (Unicode) encoding and
“ibm” for IBM encoded fonts. Per default,
“iso” is assumed.
-f
file- Specify the control device of the wscons display to operate on. Default is
/dev/ttyCcfg.
-h
height- Sets the height of a font character in pixels. Default is 16 for text-mode
VGA compatible displays, and 22 for raster displays.
-l- Specifies to print out a list of loaded fonts, no other arguments should
be specified.
-N
name- 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.
-w
width- Sets the width of a font character in pixels. Default is 8 for text-mode
VGA compatible displays, and 12 for raster displays.
No font files are provided with the wscons framework. The fonts
installed by PCVT can be used instead, as can raw font files from other
operating system distributions.
A maximum of 8 fonts can be loaded.
- /usr/share/misc/pcvtfonts/
- fonts directory.
Load the IBM-encoded 8x8-font from the PCVT distribution. This (or another
8x8-font) is necessary to use the 50-line screen type on
vga(4) displays.
# wsfontload -N myname -h 8 -e ibm \
/usr/share/misc/pcvtfonts/vt220l.808
The wsfontload program appeared in
OpenBSD 2.8.
Many features are missing.
There is no way to remove a loaded font.
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