Fonts -Diff-

/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(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.

/sys/lib/troff/font/devutf/:

(This list was list was generated with 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

/sys/lib/ghostscript/font/:

• See /sys/lib/ghostscript/font/Fontmap.

aux/download -f -H/sys/lib/postscript/font -mfontmap

/sys/lib/postscript/font/:

• See /sys/lib/postscript/font/fontmap.

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

• font(6)
• R. Pike and K. Thompson, “Hello World, or καλημέρα κόσμε, or こんにちは 世界”, Plan 9 Programmer's Manual, Fourth Edition, Volume 2.
• bdf2subf
• ttf2subf