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10.0; tr_font (transliteratet_font), revision 1.0, 88/01/21
tr_font (transliterate_font) - transliterate characters within a font
usage: tr_font  font_name  hex_conversion_table



NAME
     tr_font - transliterate characters within a font

SYNOPSIS
     tr_font font_name hex_conversion_table

DESCRIPTION
     The tr_font command allows you to change the order in which characters
     appear in fonts.  It rearranges the graphic images associated with the
     characters in font_name, according to information in the
     hex_conversion_table.  Use it if you create a new font file from two font
     files that have different character orders.

     tr_font only works on fonts already formatted for SR10.  It works
     directly on the font, without creating a backup.

     The format for the hex_conversion_table file is:

     src_ordinal dest_ordinal comment
     src_ordinal dest_ordinal comment
     src_ordinal dest_ordinal comment

     where src_ordinal is the hexidecimal ordinal value of the character whose
     graphic image is to be used as the source, dest_ordinal is the ordinal
     value of the character which gets the transliterated image, and comment
     is an optional remark (for the ASCII character set, the hexidecmal
     ordinal value 41 represents the character 'A').  If the font was created
     by concatenating two fonts with cvt_font, then the hexidecimal ordinal
     value of the lowest possible character in the second font is 80.

EXAMPLE
     The following example rearranges the characters in the SR10 format font
     file named courier according to the information in the
     hex_conversion_table theirs_to_ours.

     $ tr_font courier theirs_to_ours


     This is a sample of a hex_conversion_table file.

     A1 A1 !down
     A2 A2 cent
     A3 A3 sterling
     A5 A5 yen
     A7 A7 section
     A8 A4 currency
     AB AB guillemotleft
     B6 B6 paragraph
     B7 B7 bullet
     B8 B8 quitesinglebase
     BB BB guill


SEE ALSO
     More information is available.  Type

     help cvt_font

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