WSFONTLOAD(8) OpenBSD System Manager's Manual WSFONTLOAD(8)NAMEwsfontload - load a font bitmap into a wscons display device
SYNOPSISwsfontload [-Bbl] [-e encoding] [-f file] [-h height] [-N name]
[-w width] [fontfile]
DESCRIPTION
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 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.
-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.
-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.
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.
FILES
/usr/share/misc/pcvtfonts/ fonts directory.
EXAMPLES
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
SEE ALSOwscons(4), wsconscfg(8), wsconsctl(8)HISTORY
The wsfontload program appeared in OpenBSD 2.8.
BUGS
Many features are missing.
There is no way to remove a loaded font.
OpenBSD 4.9 May 31, 2007 OpenBSD 4.9