LUMPER(1)

💖 LUMPER 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to lumper from the General Commands Manual — yes the manual name is literally right there in the vibe, we're in section 1, we're doing Unix, we're thriving 💅

✨ NAME ✨

lumper — lump a bunch of mac font resources into the same file 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

lumper font1.dfont font2.dfont ...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So like. The program lumper adds to the file font1.dfont all the mac font resources ('sfnt', 'FOND', 'NFNT') found in the subsequent files. all of them. it's giving hoarder but make it fonts 💀

And if there are any resource id conflicts?? it will generate a new resource id (and fix up any references to that id in the 'FOND' resources). it handles it. it's a problem solver. main character energy fr fr ✨

The first file should be a mac .dfont file. the subsequent files may be:

• macbinary files (.bin)
• binhex files (.hqx)
• bare Macintosh resource forks
• data fork resource files (.dfont, as used by MacOS X)

ngl that's a whole menu of formats and lumper is not picky, she eats 🍓

👑 the FOND situation 👑

The mac 'FOND' resource is somewhat limited in the styles permitted in a mac font family. now-a-days a mac font family seems to come in a single file with those fonts that fit into a traditional mac family in one FOND and several other FONDs to accomidate the other styles. it's a whole group chat of FONDs basically 😭

Thus if you have the styles:

   Regular, Bold, Italic, BoldItalic, Condensed, Oblique, Light,
  LightItalic

for a font "Foo", you might find a file called Foo.dfont containing the following FONDs:

Foo
  Regular
  Bold
  Italic
  BoldItalic
  Condensed
FooOblique
  Oblique
FooLight
  Light
  LightItalic

see how it's organized?? Foo got the classic crew, FooOblique is out here solo, and FooLight brought a plus-one. iconic honestly 🌈

💜 AUTHOR 💜

George Williams (gww@silcom.com). we stan 💖

and that's the whole page bestie, no cap. every flag, every format, every FOND, all of it, preserved. slay 🎀

— written for the LUMPER(1) page, from the General Commands Manual, dated 3 Febuary 2004 💫 —