update-canna-dics_dir - compile dics.dir file

update-canna-dics_dir  is written and copyrighted by ISHIKAWA Mutsumi.  It is licensed under the GNU GPL,
       version 2.

Debian GNU/Linux                                 25 August 2001                         update-canna-dics_dir(8)

       See <http://bugs.debian.org/canna>.  If you wish to report a bug  in  update-canna-dics_dir,  please  see
       /usr/share/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt, the bug(1) command, or the reportbug(1) command.

update-canna-dics_dir  assembles  a  dics.dir  file in the Canna dictionary using one or more alias files
       found in a subdirectory of /etc/X11/fonts/.  It is typically invoked only from the post-installation  and
       post-removal  scripts  of  a  package  containing  fonts (that provide aliases for their names) for the X
       Window System, but may be invoked at any time to reconstruct  fonts.alias  files.   For  each  directory,
       which  is either an absolute path to an X font directory or (preferably) simply the last component of its
       path     (such     as     "75dpi"     or      "misc"),      update-canna-dics_dir      will      assemble
       /usr/lib/X11/fonts/directory/fonts.alias from the files found in /etc/X11/fonts/directory/package.alias.

       This  enables  multiple  packages  to  provide  aliases for fonts in the same directory.  No font package
       actually provides the fonts.alias file in the  X  font  directory  itself,  so  there  is  no  danger  of
       overwriting one package's aliases with those of another.

       For  instance,  the two packages "xfonts-base" and "xfonts-cjk" may both install fonts into the directory
       /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc.   They  each  place  their  fonts.alias  files  in   /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias  and  /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-cjk.alias (respectively).  update-canna-dics_dir concatenates
       these   two   files   (as   well   as   any   others   that   match   /etc/X11/fonts/misc/*.alias)   into
       /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias.

       The format for fonts.alias files is given in the mkfontdir(1) manual page.

       An  example  of  how to use update-canna-dics_dir in package maintainer scripts is provided in the Debian
       Policy Manual.

update-canna-dics_dir exits with status 1 if its arguments are absent or invalid.

       update-canna-dics_dir - compile dics.dir file

mkfontdir(1)