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F-GENCONF

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Updated: Nov 13, 2025
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NAME

f-genconf - generate a configuration in XML format

SYNOPSIS

f-genconf [ -fgloVh ] [ [-family family ] [-f family ] ] [ [-generic genericfamily ] [-g genericfamily ] ] [ [-lang lang ] [-l lang ] ] [ [-output file ] [-o file ] ] [ -version ] [ -help ]

[ font path ]

DESCRIPTION

f-genconf generates a configuration in XML format from font files where available on font path. Optional commandline options such as -family and -generic works as filter if f-genconf could not fetch a meaningful value from a font metadata.

f-genconf supports the generic alias rule and the language specific generic alias rule.

OPTIONS

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (-'). A summary of options is included below.

-f: Restrict the target family to name in a font. This is particularly useful to generate a config for a certain family name in TTC font.
-g: Set a generic family name to generate a configuration for instead of the generic family name in the font metadata.
-l: Generate the language specific generic alias rule for. If multiple languages are supposed to be covered by this, simply set them multiple times as needed.
-o: Output a configuration into file. default is stdout.
-V: Show version of the program and exit.
-h: Show summary of options.
fon-path: A font path where is going to generate a configuration for.

AUTHOR

This manual page was updated by Akira TAGOH <akira@tagoh.org>.