# Fonts in XFree86

## Juliusz Chroboczek, jch@xfree86.org

26 November 2001

### 1. Introduction

### 2. Installing fonts

  2.1. Installing bitmap fonts
  2.2. Installing scalable fonts
  2.3. Installing CID-keyed fonts
  2.4. Setting the server's font path
  2.5. Troubleshooting

### 3. Fonts included with XFree86

  3.1. Standard bitmap fonts
  3.2. The ClearlyU Unicode font family
  3.3. Standard scalable fonts
  3.4. The Bigelow & Holmes Luxi family

### 4. Fonts and internationalisation

  4.1. The fontenc layer
  4.2. Backend-specific notes about fontenc
  4.3. Format of encoding directory files
  4.4. Format of encoding files
  4.5. Using symbol fonts
  4.6. Hints about using badly encoded fonts

### 5. Additional notes about TrueType support

  5.1. The FreeType TrueType backend
  5.2. The X-TrueType TrueType backend

### 6. Appendix: background and terminology

  6.1. Characters and glyphs
  6.2. Font files, fonts, and XLFD
  6.3. Unicode

### 7. References

    $XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/fonts.sgml,v 1.15 2001/12/17 19:25:36 dawes Exp $