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update-fonts-alias !!!update-fonts-alias NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION SEE ALSO DIAGNOSTICS BUGS AUTHOR ---- !!NAME update-fonts-alias - compile fonts.alias files !!SYNOPSIS __update-fonts-alias__ ''directory ...'' !!DESCRIPTION __update-fonts-alias__ assembles a ''fonts.alias'' file in an X font directory using one or more alias files found in a subdirectory of ''/etc/X11/fonts/''. It is typically invoked only from the post-installation and post-removal scripts of a ''package'' containing fonts (that provide aliases for their names) for the X Window System, but may be invoked at any time to reconstruct ''fonts.alias'' files. For each ''directory'', which is either an absolute path to an X font directory or (preferably) simply the last component of its path (such as ''update-fonts-alias__ will assemble ''/usr/lib/X11/fonts/''directory''/fonts.alias'' from the files found in ''/etc/X11/fonts/''directory''/''package''.alias''. This enables multiple packages to provide aliases for fonts in the same directory. No font package actually provides the ''fonts.alias'' file in the X font directory itself, so there is no danger of overwriting one package's aliases with those of another. For instance, the two packages /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc''. They each place their ''fonts.alias'' files in ''/etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias'' and ''/etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-cjk.alias'' (respectively). __update-fonts-alias__ concatenates these two files (as well as any others that match ''/etc/X11/fonts/misc/*.alias'') into ''/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias''. The format for ''fonts.alias'' files is given in the mkfontdir(1) manual page. An example of how to use __update-fonts-alias__ in package maintainer scripts is provided in the Debian Policy Manual. !!SEE ALSO mkfontdir(1) !!DIAGNOSTICS __update-fonts-alias__ exits with status 1 if its arguments are absent or invalid. !!BUGS See update-fonts-alias__, please see ''/usr/share/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt'', the bug(1) command, or the reportbug(1) command. !!AUTHOR __update-fonts-alias__ is written and copyrighted by Branden Robinson. It is licensed under the GNU GPL, version 2. ----
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