HTIC(1)

📦 version 3.7.0, in ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 HTIC(1) — the manual page, bestie edition 💖

User Commands · htic

✨ NAME ✨

htic — okay so this is the girl that translates plain-text instructions into optimized TrueType hinting. That's the whole job. That's her. 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

usage:

htic [-h] [--version] [-f FONT] [-D NAME] HTI [HTI ...]

So, htic is short for The Humble Type Instruction Compiler, and no bc she is NOT humble, she takes your simplified plain-text instructions and turns them into optimized TrueType bytecode. Glow-up of the century, honestly. 💅

🎀 positional arguments:

  • HTI — the instruction file, babe. This is the one you're feeding her. ✨

🍓 options:

  • -h, --help — shows this help message and dips. "show this help message and exit" fr fr. 🫶
  • --version — shows the program's version number and then exits, like a queen leaving the group chat. 💖
  • -f, --font FONT — the target font file. This is where your output goes, bestie. 🎯
  • -D, --define NAME — this one's iconic: it removes any occurrence of #ifdef NAME so the rest of the line gets uncommented. Basically "not me deleting the conditional so the code just... speaks". 🗣️💀
Note bestie: that -D thing is doing a literal find-and-remove of the string #ifdef NAME — with the trailing space and everything. Copy it exactly, no cap. 🧚

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

More documentation for htic (like, actual examples, the good stuff) lives as a MarkDown document in this directory right here:

/usr/share/doc/htic

Go read it, iykyk. 📚✨

And that's the whole page, bestie — this is htic version 3.7.0, from September 2025, and she ate, periodt. 💅🫶 Bye!!

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