Simple font selector for Plan 9.
It scans /lib/font/bit
, /lib/font/ttf
, and shows the user a text.
User selects a font directory using middle mouse button and a specific
font in that directory with the right mouse button.
When the user decides to quit, using either q
or del
, program
prints out the full path to the last font selected, so that it's
possible to use it as follows:
font=`{fontsel} sam ....
-
and +
cycle through fonts of a specific font dir, or change the
size of the font if it's a TTF one.
Displayed text can be loaded from a file: fontsel FILE
, where FILE
can be -
to read from stdin.