On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 15:58:59 +0200, Matthias Scheler wrote:

> > today. Does it get used when building international fonts?
> 
> Yes, if "HasPer5" is defined. But I don't know what its purpose is.

Uhmm, but it has a manpage that describes the purpose...

.SH DESCRIPTION
.B bdftruncate
allows one to generate from an ISO10646-1 encoded BDF font other ISO10646-1
BDF fonts in which all characters above a threshold code value are stored
unencoded.  This is often desirable because the Xlib API and X11 protocol
data structures used for representing font metric information are extremely
inefficient when handling sparsely populated fonts.
.SH EXAMPLE
The command
.RS
bdftruncate 0x3200 < 6x13.bdf > 6x13t.bdf
.RE
will generate the file 6x13t.bdf in which all glyphs with codes
>= 0x3200 will only be stored unencoded (i.e., they are encoded at
codepoint -1).


SY, Uwe
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