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30.Dd October 7, 2001
31.Dt WSFONT 9
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm wsfont ,
35.Nm wsfont_init ,
36.Nm wsfont_matches ,
37.Nm wsfont_find ,
38.Nm wsfont_add ,
39.Nm wsfont_remove ,
40.Nm wsfont_enum ,
41.Nm wsfont_lock ,
42.Nm wsfont_unlock ,
43.Nm wsfont_map_unichar
44.Nd wscons font support
45.Sh SYNOPSIS
46.In dev/wscons/wsconsio.h
47.In dev/wsfont/wsfont.h
48.Ft void
49.Fn wsfont_init "void"
50.Ft int
51.Fn wsfont_matches "struct wsdisplay_font *font" "const char *name" \
52"int width" "int height" "int stride"
53.Ft int
54.Fn wsfont_find "const char *name" "int width" "int height" "int stride" \
55"int bitorder" "int byteorder"
56.Ft int
57.Fn wsfont_add "struct wsdisplay_font *font" "int copy"
58.Ft int
59.Fn wsfont_remove "int cookie"
60.Ft void
61.Fn wsfont_enum "void (*callback)(const char *, int, int, int)"
62.Ft int
63.Fn wsfont_lock "int cookie" "struct wsdisplay_font **ptr"
64.Ft int
65.Fn wsfont_unlock "int cookie"
66.Ft int
67.Fn wsfont_map_unichar "struct wsdisplay_font *font" "int c"
68.Sh DESCRIPTION
69The
70.Nm
71module is a component of the
72.Xr wscons 9
73framework to provide access to display fonts.
74Fonts may be loaded dynamically into the kernel or included statically
75in the kernel at compile time.
76Display drivers which emulate a glass-tty console on a bit-mapped
77display can add, remove and find fonts for use by device-dependent
78blitter operations.
79.Pp
80The primary data type for manipulating fonts is the
81.Em wsdisplay_font
82structure in
83.Pa dev/wscons/wsconsio.h :
84.Bd -literal
85struct wsdisplay_font {
86	const char *name;	/* font name */
87	int firstchar;
88	int numchars;		/* size of font table */
89	int encoding;		/* font encoding */
90	u_int fontwidth;	/* character width */
91	u_int fontheight;	/* character height */
92	u_int stride;
93	int bitorder;
94	int byteorder;
95	void *data;		/* pointer to font table */
96};
97.Ed
98.Pp
99The maximum font table size is
100.Em WSDISPLAY_MAXFONTSZ .
101.Pp
102The
103.Nm
104framework supports fonts with the following encodings:
105.Bl -tag -width compact
106.It WSDISPLAY_FONTENC_ISO
107ISO-encoded fonts.
108.It WSDISPLAY_FONTENC_IBM
109IBM-encoded fonts commonly available for IBM CGA, EGA and VGA display
110adapters.
111.It WSDISPLAY_FONTENC_PCVT
112PCVT-encoding fonts distributed as part of the old PCVT terminal
113emulation driver.
114.It WSDISPLAY_FONTENC_ISO7
115ISO-encoded Greek fonts.
116.It WSDISPLAY_FONTENC_ISO2
117ISO-encoded East European fonts.
118.El
119.Sh FUNCTIONS
120.Bl -tag -width compact
121.It Fn wsfont_init "void"
122Initialise the font list with the built-in fonts.
123.It Fn wsfont_matches "font" "name" "width" "height" "stride"
124Matches the font
125.Fa font
126with the specifications
127.Fa name ,
128.Fa width ,
129.Fa height
130and
131.Fa stride .
132Return zero if not matched and non-zero if matched.
133.It Fn wsfont_find "name" "width" "height" "stride" "bitorder" "byteorder"
134Find the font called
135.Fa name
136from the fonts loaded into the kernel.
137The font aspect is specified by
138.Fa width ,
139.Fa height ,
140and
141.Fa stride .
142If
143.Fn wsfont_find
144is called with any of the parameters as 0, it indicates that we don't
145care about that aspect of the font.
146If the font is found, a (nonnegative-valued) cookie is returned which
147can be used with the other functions.
148.Pp
149The
150.Fa bitorder
151and
152.Fa byteorder
153arguments are the bit order and byte order required.
154Valid values are:
155.Bl -tag -width compact
156.It WSDISPLAY_FONTORDER_KNOWN
157The font is in known ordered format and doesn't need converting.
158.It WSDISPLAY_FONTORDER_L2R
159The font is ordered left to right.
160.It WSDISPLAY_FONTORDER_R2L
161The font is ordered right to left.
162.El
163.Pp
164When more flexibility is required,
165.Fn wsfont_enum
166should be used.
167.It Fn wsfont_add "font" "copy"
168Add a font
169.Fa font
170to the font list.
171If the
172.Fa copy
173argument is non-zero, then the font is physically copied, otherwise a
174reference to the original font is made.
175.It Fn wsfont_remove "cookie"
176Remove the font specified by
177.Fa cookie
178from the font list.
179The value of cookie was returned by
180.Fn wsfont_add .
181.It Fn wsfont_enum "callback"
182Enumerate the list of fonts.
183For each font in the font list, the
184.Fa callback
185function argument is called with the arguments specifying the font
186name, width, height and stride.
187.It Fn wsfont_lock "cookie" "ptr"
188Lock access to the font specified by
189.Fa cookie
190so that it cannot be unloaded from the kernel while is being used.
191If the bit or byte order of the font to be locked differs from what
192has been requested with
193.Fn wsfont_find
194then the glyph data will be modified to match.
195At this point it may be necessary for
196.Fn wsfont_lock
197to make a copy of the font data; this action is transparent to the caller.
198A later call to
199.Fn wsfont_unlock
200will free resources used by temporary copies.
201.Pp
202The address of the wsdisplay_font pointer for the specified font is returned in
203the
204.Fa ptr
205argument.
206.Pp
207.Fn wsfont_lock
208returns zero on success, or an error code on failure.
209.It Fn wsfont_unlock "cookie"
210Unlock the font specified by
211.Fa cookie .
212Returns zero on success, or an error code on failure.
213.It Fn wsfont_map_unichar "font" "c"
214Remap the unicode character
215.Fa c
216to glyph for font
217.Fa font .
218Returns the glyph on success or \-1 on error.
219.El
220.Sh CODE REFERENCES
221The wscons subsystem is implemented within the directory
222.Pa sys/dev/wscons .
223The wsfont subsystem itself is implemented within the file
224.Pa sys/dev/wsfont/wsfont.c .
225.Sh SEE ALSO
226.Xr wsfont 4 ,
227.Xr wsfontload 8 ,
228.Xr autoconf 9 ,
229.Xr driver 9 ,
230.Xr intro 9 ,
231.Xr wscons 9 ,
232.Xr wsdisplay 9
233