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BITMAP FONTS The screen font can be changed at startup by changing the font variable in $home/lib/profile. [/lib/font/bit/ | http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/lib/font/bit/]: * big5/ – from the students at the University of Hong Kong * courier/ – the well-known monospace font * fixed/ – from XFree86, public domain and ugly * gb/ – script fonts? * jis/ – Japaneese fonts from MIT's X distribution * lucida/ – from our friends Bigelow & Holmes Inc * lucidasans/ – more from our friends Bigelow & Holmes Inc * lucm/ – more from our friends Bigelow & Holmes Inc * misc/ – more from our friends at MIT * naga10/ – Japaneese and Latin fonts * palatino/ – the well-known font * pelm/ – the default font for rio(1), from our friends Bigelow & Holmes Inc * shinonome/ – Japaneese and Latin fonts * smiley/ – * special/ – * times/ – the well-known Times Roman TROFF FONTS troff(1) actually only cares about how wide each character is. This is a list of fonts for which it knows that. These files can be generated with [buildtables | http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/postscript/buildtables/]. [/sys/lib/troff/font/devutf/ | http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/lib/troff/font/devutf/]: (This list was list was generated with [invfo.rc | http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/btdn/src/invfo.rc].) * AB – AvantGarde-Demi * AI – AvantGarde-BookOblique * AR – AvantGarde-Book * AX – AvantGarde-DemiOblique * B – Times-Bold * BI – Times-BoldItalic * C – Courier * CB – Courier-Bold * CI – Courier-Oblique * CO – Courier * CW – Courier * CX – Courier-BoldOblique * GR – Symbol * H – Helvetica * HB – Helvetica-Bold * HI – Helvetica-Oblique * HK – Helvetica-LightOblique * HL – Helvetica-Light * HM – Helvetica * HX – Helvetica-BoldOblique * Hb – Helvetica-Narrow-Bold * Hi – Helvetica-Narrow-Oblique * Hr – Helvetica-Narrow * Hx – Helvetica-Narrow-BoldOblique * I – Times-Italic * KB – Bookman-Demi * KI – Bookman-LightItalic * KR – Bookman-Light * KX – Bookman-DemiItalic * LucidaCW – LucidaTypewriter * LucidaSans – LucidaSans * LucidaSansB – LucidaSans-Demi * LucidaSansCW83 – LucidaSans-Typewriter83 * LucidaSansI – LucidaSans-Italic * NB – NewCenturySchlbk-Bold * NI – NewCenturySchlbk-Italic * NR – NewCenturySchlbk-Roman * NX – NewCenturySchlbk-BoldItalic * PA – Palatino-Roman * PB – Palatino-Bold * PI – Palatino-Italic * PX – Palatino-BoldItalic * R – Times-Roman * R.nomath – Times-Roman * S – Symbol * S1 – Times-Roman * Syntax – Syntax-Roman * SyntaxB – Syntax-Bold * SyntaxI – Syntax-Italic * UnivMath1 – Universal-MathOne * UnivMath2 – Universal-MathTwo * UnivMath3 – Universal-MathThree * UnivMath4 – Universal-MathFour * UnivMath5 – Universal-MathFive * UnivMath6 – Universal-MathSix * ZD – ZapfDingbats * ZI – ZapfChancery-MediumItalic GHOSTSCRIPT FONTS [/sys/lib/ghostscript/font/ | http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/lib/ghostscript/font/]: * See [/sys/lib/ghostscript/font/Fontmap | http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/lib/ghostscript/font/Fontmap]. POSTSCRIPT FONTS PostScript fonts may be embeded in a document by piping it through aux/download. ! aux/download -f -H/sys/lib/postscript/font -mfontmap [/sys/lib/postscript/font/ | http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/lib/postscript/font/]: * See [/sys/lib/postscript/font/fontmap | http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/lib/postscript/font/fontmap]. ANTIALIASED FONTS You can use the Code2000, Cyberbit and Vera, TrueType fonts to get a nicer look on Rio and Acme. Erik has provided the following instructions on the [9fans] mailing list (updated): ! 9fs sources ! contrib/install quanstro/vera ! font=/lib/font/bit/vera/unicode.12.font rio SEE ALSO * font(6) * R. Pike and K. Thompson, “[Hello World, or καλημέρα κόσμε, or こんにちは 世界 | /sys/doc/utf.html]”, Plan 9 Programmer's Manual, Fourth Edition, Volume 2. * [bdf2subf | /sources/contrib/fst/bdfsubf.tgz] * [ttf2subf | http://9grid.net/andrey/p9/freetype/]
