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diff --git a/doc/groff.html.node/Device-and-Font-Description-Files.html b/doc/groff.html.node/Device-and-Font-Description-Files.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b935830 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/groff.html.node/Device-and-Font-Description-Files.html @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html> +<!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 7.0.3, https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> +<head> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> +<!-- This manual documents GNU troff version 1.23.0. + +Copyright © 1994-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + +Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document +under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no +Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A +copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free +Documentation License". --> +<title>Device and Font Description Files (The GNU Troff Manual)</title> + +<meta name="description" content="Device and Font Description Files (The GNU Troff Manual)"> +<meta name="keywords" content="Device and Font Description Files (The GNU Troff Manual)"> +<meta name="resource-type" content="document"> +<meta name="distribution" content="global"> +<meta name="Generator" content="makeinfo"> +<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"> + +<link href="index.html" rel="start" title="Top"> +<link href="Request-Index.html" rel="index" title="Request Index"> +<link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> +<link href="File-Formats.html" rel="up" title="File Formats"> +<link href="gtroff-Output.html" rel="prev" title="gtroff Output"> + + +</head> + +<body lang="en"> +<div class="section-level-extent" id="Device-and-Font-Description-Files"> +<div class="nav-panel"> +<p> +Previous: <a href="gtroff-Output.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev"><code class="code">gtroff</code> Output</a>, Up: <a href="File-Formats.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">File Formats</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Request-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> +</div> +<hr> +<h3 class="section" id="Device-and-Font-Description-Files-1">6.2 Device and Font Description Files</h3> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-font-files"></a> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-files_002c-font"></a> + +<p>The <code class="code">groff</code> font and output device description formats are slight +extensions of those used by <abbr class="acronym">AT&T</abbr> device-independent +<code class="code">troff</code>. In distinction to the <abbr class="acronym">AT&T</abbr> implementation, +<code class="code">groff</code> lacks a binary format; all files are text +files.<a class="footnote" id="DOCF125" href="groff.html_fot.html#FOOT125"><sup>125</sup></a> The device and font description files for a device <var class="var">name</var> +are stored in a <samp class="file">dev<var class="var">name</var></samp> directory. The device description +file is called <samp class="file">DESC</samp>, and, for each font supported by the device, +a font description file is called <samp class="file"><var class="var">f</var></samp>, where +<var class="var">f</var> is usually an abbreviation of a font’s name and/or style. +For example, the <code class="code">ps</code> (PostScript) device has <code class="code">groff</code> font +description files for Times roman (<samp class="file">TR</samp>) and Zapf Chancery Medium +italic (<samp class="file">ZCMI</samp>), among many others, while the <code class="code">utf8</code> device +(for terminal emulators) has only font descriptions for the roman, +italic, bold, and bold-italic styles (<samp class="file">R</samp>, <samp class="file">I</samp>, <samp class="file">B</samp>, and +<samp class="file">BI</samp>, respectively). +</p> +<p>Device and font description files are read both by the formatter, GNU +<code class="code">troff</code>, and by output drivers. The programs delegate these files’ +processing to an internal library, <samp class="file">libgroff</samp>, ensuring their +consistent interpretation. +</p> + + +<ul class="mini-toc"> +<li><a href="DESC-File-Format.html" accesskey="1"><samp class="file">DESC</samp> File Format</a></li> +<li><a href="Font-Description-File-Format.html" accesskey="2">Font Description File Format</a></li> +</ul> +</div> + + + +</body> +</html> |