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ADDFTINFO(1)                           General Commands Manual                          ADDFTINFO(1)



NAME
       addftinfo - add information to troff font files for use with groff

SYNOPSIS
       addftinfo [-asc-height n] [-body-depth n] [-body-height n] [-cap-height n] [-comma-depth n]
                 [-desc-depth n] [-fig-height n] [-x-height n] res unitwidth font

       addftinfo --help

       addftinfo -v
       addftinfo --version

DESCRIPTION
       addftinfo reads a troff font file and adds some additional font-metric  information  that  is
       used  by  the groff system.  The font file with the information added is written on the stan‐
       dard output.  The information added is guessed using some parametric  information  about  the
       font  and assumptions about the traditional troff names for characters.  The main information
       added is the heights and depths of characters.  The res and unitwidth arguments should be the
       same  as the corresponding parameters in the DESC file; font is the name of the file describ‐
       ing the font; if font ends with I the font will be assumed to be italic.

OPTIONS
       -v prints the version number.

       All other options change one of the parameters that  are  used  to  derive  the  heights  and
       depths.   Like  the  existing  quantities in the font file, each value is in inches/res for a
       font whose point size is unitwidth.  param-option must be one of:

       -x-height
              The height of lowercase letters without ascenders such as x.

       -fig-height
              The height of figures (digits).

       -asc-height
              The height of characters with ascenders, such as b, d or l.

       -body-height
              The height of characters such as parentheses.

       -cap-height
              The height of uppercase letters such as A.

       -comma-depth
              The depth of a comma.

       -desc-depth
              The depth of characters with descenders, such as p, q, or y.

       -body-depth
              The depth of characters such as parentheses.

       addftinfo makes no attempt to use the specified parameters to guess the  unspecified  parame‐
       ters.   If a parameter is not specified the default will be used.  The defaults are chosen to
       have the reasonable values for a Times font.

SEE ALSO
       groff_font(5), groff(1), groff_char(7)

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groff 1.22.4                                23 March 2022                               ADDFTINFO(1)