1d.font(1)                     Grass User's Manual                    d.font(1)
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NAME

6       d.font   -  Selects  the  font  in  which text will be displayed on the
7       user's graphics monitor.
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KEYWORDS

10       display
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SYNOPSIS

13       d.font
14       d.font help
15       d.font   [-lL]    [font=string]     [path=string]      [charset=string]
16       [--verbose]  [--quiet]
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18   Flags:
19       -l
20           List fonts
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22       -L
23           List fonts verbosely
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25       --verbose
26           Verbose module output
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28       --quiet
29           Quiet module output
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31   Parameters:
32       font=string
33           Choose new current font
34           Default: romans
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36       path=string
37           Path to Freetype-compatible font including file name
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39       charset=string
40           Character encoding
41           Default: UTF-8
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DESCRIPTION

44       d.font  allows  the user to select use of a specific text font for dis‐
45       play of text on the graphics monitor.  The GRASS program  show.fonts.sh
46       is  a  UNIX  Bourne shell macro which names and displays the fonts that
47       can be selected using d.font.  If the user does not specify a font when
48       using  other  GRASS programs that display text, the font type romans is
49       used by default.
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51       The user can run this  program  either  non-interactively  or  interac‐
52       tively.  If the user specifies a font type name on the command line the
53       program will run non-interactively.  Alternately, the user  can  simply
54       type  d.font on the command line; in this case, the program will prompt
55       the user for a display text font type using the standard  GRASS  inter‐
56       face described in the manual entry for parser.
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58       Parameter:
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60       font=name
61              Name of a font type, from among the font types italicized below.
62              Default: romans
63              Options: (italized)
64              cyrilc Cyrillic
65              gothgbt Gothic Great Britain triplex
66              gothgrt Gothic German triplex
67              gothitt Gothic Italian triplex
68              greekc Greek complex
69              greekcs Greek complex script
70              greekp Greek plain
71              greeks Greek simplex
72              italicc Italian complex
73              italiccs Italian complex small
74              italict Italian triplex
75              romanc Roman complex
76              romancs Roman complex small
77              romand Roman duplex
78              romanp Roman plain
79              romans Roman simplex
80              romant Roman triplex
81              scriptc Script complex
82              scripts Script simplex
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NOTES

85       The  font type romans is the fastest font type to display to the graph‐
86       ics monitor.
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SEE ALSO

89       d.text
90       d.text.freetype
91       d.font.freetype
92       d.title
93       parser
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AUTHOR

96       James Westervelt, U.S. Army Construction Engineering  Research  Labora‐
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99       d.font  uses  the public domain version of the Hershey Fonts created by
100       Dr. A.V. Hershey while working at the U.S.  National  Bureau  of  Stan‐
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103       Last changed: $Date: 2007-05-03 01:49:32 +0200 (Thu, 03 May 2007) $
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107       © 2003-2008 GRASS Development Team
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111GRASS 6.3.0                                                          d.font(1)