fontmatrix(1)

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version 0.11.0 · 2 versions
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💖 fontmatrix 💖

bestie. sit down. we're talking about fontmatrix(1) today and honestly?? she's that girl.

✨ NAME ✨

fontmatrix — a powerful open source font manager. no cap, "powerful" is doing real work in that sentence. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

fontmatrix [-h|--help]

that's it. that's the whole synopsis. she's lowkey minimal like that.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Fontmatrix is an open source font manager that was originally developed on Linux, but now runs on OSX as well. she's bilingual in operating systems. versatile. we love to see it. 💜

This man page is only giving you summaries of some aspects of how the program gets used, okay? Its main character purpose is to make sure you can find the full documentation quickly and easily. so don't come for me about what's missing — go read the real docs. 🫶

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

The definitive options live in the program's own usage statement, periodt. Run this:

fontmatrix --help

...to view the usage statement. fr fr.

  • -l, --lang xx — overrides the system locale and runs Fontmatrix in language xx. The language is specified with the same POSIX language codes that are used in the LANG and LC_ALL environment variables. Example time: English can be selected with 'en' (generic English), 'en_GB' (British English), 'en_US' (American english), etc. And similarly, Deutsch can be selected with 'de' or 'de_DE'. 🌍
    • -la, --langs-available — prints a list of languages for which user interface translations are available. To use one of those languages, run Fontmatrix as fontmatrix -l xx where xx is the short language code, or set the locale environment variables as described below. 👇
  • -v, --version — prints the Fontmatrix version number and exits. short. sweet. iconic. 🎀
  • -f, --file — opens the specified file. ngl, you can just pass the file name as an unqualified argument instead of using this flag — but if the name begins with a - you will need to use --, eg:
fontmatrix -- -myfile.sla
  • -ns, --no-splash — suppresses display of the splash screen during SCribus start-up. (yes, it says SCribus. that's what the page says. i'm not editing the queen's words. 💀)

💜 ENVIRONMENT 💜

Fontmatrix respects the standard locale environment variables. Others may be used through underlying libraries, such as Qt, or by programs used by Fontmatrix. So: LC_ALL, LC_MESSAGES, LANG POSIX locale — see locale(1). Fontmatrix uses these three environment variables, in the listed order of precedence, to select the language (including the user interface translation) to use. If none of them are set, it will fall back on the locale set by the underlying Qt library. hierarchy! we stan a precedence order. 👑

  • PATH — Fontmatrix may search the PATH for external tools if their paths are not specified absolutely. This is currently most likely to affect you if you have multiple copies of fontforge(1) installed. You can set an absolute path to the correct fontforge(1) in your Fontmatrix preferences and bypass the PATH search. 🛣️

A few important environment variables from other programs are summarised here for convenience, though you should check the original program's documentation if you are having trouble. other people's homework, summarised for your convenience. 📚

📁 FILES 📁

  • $HOME/.fontmatrix/ — user preferences are stored in $HOME/.fontmatrix/ on Unix or Linux. Most other paths are configurable from the Fontmatrix preferences.
  • $HOME/.fonts/ 🌷
  • $HOME/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf 🗂️
  • /etc/fonts — Fontconfig, the library used by Fontmatrix to locate fonts, is normally configured with files in /etc/fonts, mainly /etc/fonts/fonts.conf and /etc/fonts/local.conf. It may also use a config file $HOME/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf and fonts in $HOME/.fonts/. See fonts.conf(5) and the fontconfig documentation for more information. Also heads up: Fontmatrix may also use its internal font path to locate more fonts — see the Preferences dialog and fontmatrix help. 🔍

💀 BUGS 💀

See https://github.com/fontmatrix/fontmatrix/issues for the Fontmatrix on-line status tracker — that's the place used to track bug reports and feature requests.

okay so if you're planning to submit a bug report or a feature request, please search the bug database first. i am begging you. the issue already exists. it always exists. 😭

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Please see the About Fontmatrix option in the Help menu for a list of authors, translators, and contributors. the whole group chat of legends. 🫶

and that's the page!! this gorgeous thing was written by Peter Linnell, last updated 2008-05-18, and it lives under the name fontmatrix(1) in the manual. she's vintage, she's thriving, she's the moment. mwah. 💅✨🎀

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