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diff --git a/man/man3/graphics.3 b/man/man3/graphics.3 index 43214f1f..a2b2d848 100644 --- a/man/man3/graphics.3 +++ b/man/man3/graphics.3 @@ -228,30 +228,14 @@ pointer that can be used by to draw characters from the font. .I Openfont does the same, but reads the description -from the named file. +from the named font. .I Freefont frees a font. -The convention for naming font files is: -.IP -.B /lib/font/bit/\fIname\fP/\fIrange\fP.\fIsize\fP.font -.PD -.PP -where -.I size -is approximately the height in pixels of the lower case letters -(without ascenders or descenders). -.I Range -gives some indication of which characters will be available: for example -.BR ascii , -.BR latin1 , -.BR euro , -or -.BR unicode . -.B Euro -includes most European languages, punctuation marks, the International Phonetic -Alphabet, etc., but no Oriental languages. -.B Unicode -includes every character for which appropriate-sized images exist on the system. +In contrast to Plan 9, font names in Plan 9 from User Space are +a small language describing the desired font. +See +.IR font (7) +for details. .PP A .I Cursor @@ -319,6 +303,9 @@ if .B $font is not set, it imports the default (usually minimal) font from the operating system. +(See +.IR font (7) +for a full discussion of font syntaxes.) The global .I font will be set to point to the resulting |