NAME

wsfontload - load a font bitmap into the wsfont pool or a wscons display device

SYNOPSIS

wsfontload [-f wsdev] [-w width] [-h height] [-e encoding] [-N name] [-b] [-B] [-v] [fontfile]

DESCRIPTION

The wsfontload utility loads a font bitmap into the wsfont font pool (or a wscons device if the device driver supports this). 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 standard input if fontfile is not provided.

The options are:

-f wsdev
Specify the device to operate on. Default is /dev/wsfont.

-w width
Sets the width of a font character in pixels. Default is 8.

-h height
Sets the height of a font character in pixels. Default is 16.

-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 encoding, `ibm' for IBM encoded fonts and `pcvt' for the custom encoding of the supplemental fonts which came with the BSD ``pcvt'' console driver. Per default, `iso' is assumed.

-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.

-b
Specifies that the font data is ordered right-to-left bit wise. The default is left-to-right.

-B
Specifies that the font data is ordered right-to-left byte wise. The default is left-to-right.

-v
Prints the font's properties before loading it.

Typically, the wsfontload utility will be executed in system startup by the /etc/rc.d/wscons script, controlled by the /etc/wscons.conf configuration file.

FILES

/etc/wscons.conf /usr/share/wscons/fonts

EXAMPLES


       wsfontload -N myname -h 8 -e ibm /usr/share/wscons/fonts/vt220l.808

Load the IBM-encoded 8×8-font from the wscons(4) distribution. This (or another 8×8-font) is necessary to use the 50-line screen type on vga(4) displays.


       wsfontload -N orator -e ibm /usr/share/wscons/fonts/orator.816
       wsconsctl -dw font=orator

Load the ``orator'' IBM-encoded 8×16 font and switch the first console screen (ttyE0, wsconsctl's default) to this alternate font.

SEE ALSO

wscons(4), wsconscfg(8), wsconsctl(8)

BUGS

Many features are missing.

There is no way to remove a loaded font.