xgfmerge - merges two Xgridfit program files
xgfmerge [options] file-a file-b
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Xgfmerge merges two or more Xgridfit program files, where
file-a is a program generated automatically from an existing font using TTX
and ttx2xgf, and file-b and any other files in the list contain other
programming for the font. Xgfmerge outputs the merged programming to
stdout. To capture the output in a file, use this syntax:
$xgfmerge -o merged-file.xgf file-a.xgf file-b.xgf
Note: To merge Xgridfit instructions with those already in
a font, the best method is now to run Xgridfit in merge-mode (option
-m).
- -c
- Look for a <default type="compile-globals"/> element in
each file after the first in the list. If value="no" then ignore
all <default>, <control-value>, <function>,
<macro> and <pre-program> elements in the file.
- -h
- Display a help message.
- -n
- Merge <no-compile> elements from all files. <glyph> elements
with duplicate "ps-name" attributes are ignored.
- -o file
- The file to write the output to. If this option is not used, output is
written to stdout.
- -p
- When a <pre-program> element in a file other than file-a is
available, use it instead of the one from file-a. If this option is not
present, xgfmerge merges the programming in the <pre-program> of
file-a with that in the <pre-program> of whichever file is being
merged at the moment. The result is unlikely to be good if a single run of
xgfmerge merges the contents of more than two <pre-program>
elements.
- -s
- Sort <glyph> elements in the output file into alphabetical
order.
- -v
- Verbose output: xgfmerge tells you what it is doing at each step.
- -x
- Resolve XIncludes before merging all files in the list except for file-a.
Any XIncludes from file-a.xgf are stripped out of the files before this
operation is performed. If XInclude is used to bring global elements
(<control-value>, <function>, etc.) into these files, it is
probably a good idea to use the -c option as well.
- /usr/share/xml/xgridfit/util/merge.xsl
- An XSLT script that performs the merge.
- /usr/share/xml/xgridfit/util/xinclude.xsl
- An XSLT script that strips out unwanted XIncludes.
- /usr/share/xml/xgridfit/util/sort-glyphs.xsl
- An XSLT script that sorts glyph elements in a file.
- /usr/share/xml/xgridfit/utils/add-blanks.sed
- Does some formatting of the output.
Xgfmerge was written by Peter Baker
<psb6m@virginia.edu>.
This manual page was written by Peter Baker