cedit - Invokes the UDC Manager utility
cedit [-h] [-c old_db] [-r ref_db] [cur_db]
Displays the usage message. Copies and converts old format
font file or character attribute database to the new
format used by cedit. Sets the reference attribute
database rather than using the system default.
Specifies the UDC attribute database to be edited. If
this parameter is not given, the default user database is
used or, if user databases are not enabled, the system
database is used. The location of the default user and
system databases are determined by the entry for the udc
service in the cp_dirs file (see cp_dirs(4)). The default
pathnames are /var/i18n/udc for the system database and
~/.udc for the user database. When the user pathname field
in the udc entry contains a hyphen (-), user databases are
disabled for the system.
The cedit command invokes the UDC Manager utility, which
manages the attributes of user-defined characters (UDCs).
You can run UDC Manager to create or edit a font glyph for
the character and to manipulate the following character
attributes: Symbolic name Bitmap font size (16x18, 24x24,
32x32, 40x40) and style Codeset value Collating value
Input key sequences for some of the supported input methods
Character classes
The actual number and type of character attributes that
you can manipulate for each language depends on the corresponding
character configuration files.
The utility has two modes of operation, menu mode and
font-editing mode. When you start the utility, it is in
menu mode. In menu mode, the screen is divided into 3
parts. The upper half of the screen is the work space for
the menu system. Below that is the status area for showing
the current codeset and language. The bottom two lines
form the user input and message display area.
In menu mode, you manipulate character attributes through
menu selections; however, you cannot create or change the
font glyph. To edit the glyph, you must select the Font
item in the Edit menu. This selection changes the utility
to font-editing mode, where you use single and double
keystroke commands for editing. For more information about
changing character attributes and editing font glyphs, see
the Menu Mode and Font-Editing Mode sections in this reference
page.
The UDC attribute database is not used directly by system
utilities. Information in this database must be processed
by the cgen command to create data files that are used by
system utilities. Refer to cgen(1) for information about
processing information in the UDC attribute database.
Menu Mode [Toc] [Back]
The UDC Manager provides a menu navigation system for command
selection and activation. In the menu mode, there is
a horizontal main menu bar at the top of the screen. This
menu bar has several different menu items for you to
select and activate.
A menu item can be in one of the following states: inactive
active selected activated
An inactive menu item does not have a highlighted and
underlined letter and cannot be selected.
An active menu item has a highlighted and underlined letter
and can be selected. The highlighted letter specifies
the hot key for fast selection and activation of this menu
item.
A selected menu item appears in inverse video. It is
ready for subsequent activation.
An activated menu item is the one whose submenu has popped
up on the screen or one whose function has started.
You can use one of two methods to navigate within the menu
system. You can use the four arrow keys to move the location
cursor to various parts of the menu, or you can press
the hot key for fast selection and activation of menu
item.
For the horizontal main menu bar, you can press the Downarrow,
Space, or Return key to activate a selected item. A
pull-down submenu appears for the activated menu item.
Pressing the Left-arrow or Right-arrow key selects and
activates the corresponding menu item on the main menu
bar. To activate a selected item in a pull-down menu, you
can use either the Return or the Space key.
When >> characters follow a menu item, activating that
item causes a submenu to pop up. To return to a higher
menu level without activating an item on the current
level, press Ctrl/X.
To display help for each menu item, press the Help key.
The main menu bar has the following pull-down menus: File
Edit Delete Show Commands Options Help
The File menu allows you to exit or quit the UDC Manager
as well as change the reference character attribute
database. This menu also lets you save changes made to
the current character or cancel all the changes made to
that character.
The Edit menu allows you to select the current character
and edit each individual attribute of that character.
Activation of the Font item changes the UDC Manager to
font-editing mode.
The Delete menu allows you to delete previously defined
attributes of the current character.
The Show menu allows you to show the status and values of
character attributes already defined. (However, you cannot
view the font glyph through this menu.)
The Commands menu lets you scale a number of font records
of a certain font size, list all the characters available
in the current database for the current codeset and language,
and copy a number of character records from the
reference character attribute database to the current
database.
The Options menu allows you to change the current codeset
and language. These options do not change the language of
the utility's user interface. Your options for the user
interface language are limited to English and the language
determined by the locale setting at utility startup time.
The Help menu provides online information about the utility.
For some menu items, a selection list pops up that allows
you to choose one or more of the character attributes. To
choose or mark a character attribute, press the space bar
or the Return key.
Font Editing Mode [Toc] [Back]
The UDC Manager provides a full screen font editor for
creating and modifying character font patterns. The following
paragraphs give a brief introduction to the screen
layout and features available to the user.
On the top left corner of the font editor, there are three
small windows under the heading "Reference". They are
used by the Refer mechanism to display other font patterns
in their real size so that users can use these fonts as a
reference when designing new fonts.
The Display window under the three Refer windows is for
displaying, in its real size, the font currently being
edited. The main window on the right side of the editor
is the Edit window on which users can create or modify
fonts using cursor movements and editing functions. Each
dot inside the window represents one pixel. The patterns
in the Display and Edit windows may not match. To make
them match, press the DISPLAY key (KP.).
There are four Edit modes (Cursor, Paste, Type, and Wrap)
that you can set to control the characteristics of the
editing functions. The Cursor mode can be ON, OFF, ON/OFF
or MOVE and controls whether cursor movement turns on or
off the pixel under the cursor. The Paste mode can be
OVERLAY or OVERWRITE and controls the outcome of paste
operation. The Type mode can be BODY or LETTER and specifies
whether a boundary is kept around the character. The
Wrap mode can be ON or OFF to enable or disable wrapping
of the cursor.
There are three buffers in the Font Editor (EDIT, USE, and
CUT and PASTE) that are the areas where bitmaps are saved.
The EDIT buffer is the main buffer where you edit the font
glyph. This is the buffer that normally appears in the
Edit window. The USE buffer is the buffer that appears in
the Edit window when the USE function is invoked. The CUT
and PASTE buffer content is not visible, but users can cut
a pattern from the EDIT or USE buffers to this buffer or
paste its contents into the EDIT buffer.
Most of the editing functions are invoked by pressing a
single key on the keypad of the keyboard. But some
functions are invoked by pressing PF1, called the GOLD
key, and another key. The GOLD key changes the editing
function that is mapped by default to the second key.
The Font Editor also provides a small pop-up menu for the
SCALE, USE and REFER functions. The USE and REFER functions
can also be invoked by keystroke; the SCALE function
can only be invoked by menu.
The SCALE function allows users to scale the current font
to other sizes supported by the system.
The USE function allows users to retrieve a font from the
character attribute databases or from one of the Reference
windows for a cut and paste operation.
The REFER function allows users to save either the current
edited font or a font from the one of the databases into
one of the three reference windows in a round-robin fashion.
For more information about each individual function, you
can invoke the HELP function within the Font Editor. The
following table specifies the terminal key bindings for
all the editing functions:
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Editing Function Key Binding Description
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HELP Help,PF2 Provides help on various edit
functions
GOLD PF1 Toggles GOLD state
CURSOR-MODE PF3 Toggles Cursor mode
PASTE-MODE PF4 Toggles Paste mode
TYPE-MODE KP- Toggles Type mode
WRAP-MODE KP, Toggles Wrap mode
U&L KP7 Depending on Cursor mode, moves
up & left
UP KP8 Depending on Cursor mode, moves
up
U&R KP9 Depending on Cursor mode, moves
up & right
LEFT KP4 Depending on Cursor mode, moves
left
RIGHT KP6 Depending on Cursor mode, moves
right
D&L KP1 Depending on Cursor mode, moves
down & left
DOWN KP2 Depending on Cursor mode, moves
down
D&R KP3 Depending on Cursor mode, moves
down & right
USE KP0 Displays font pattern in USE
buffer
DISPLAY KP. Displays font pattern in real
size
TOGGLE KP5 Toggles ON/OFF state of pixel
under cursor
EXIT Enter Saves changes and exit editor
QUIT GOLD Enter Quits editor without saving
changes
CLEAR GOLD KP, Clears font pattern on Edit window
REFER GOLD KP. Displays font pattern in Refer
windows
RETUSE GOLD KP0 Returns to EDIT buffer from USE
buffer
ULCORNER GOLD KP7 Jumps to upper left corner
TOP GOLD KP8 Jumps to top
URCORNER GOLD KP9 Jumps to upper right corner
LSIDE GOLD KP4 Jumps to left side
CENTER GOLD KP5 Jumps to center
RSIDE GOLD KP6 Jumps to right side
LLCORNER GOLD KP1 Jumps to lower left corner
BOTTOM GOLD KP2 Jumps to bottom
LRCORNER GOLD KP3 Jumps to lower right corner
SELECT SELECT Toggles start/cancel selected
area
PASTE INSERT Inserts content of paste buffer
CUT REMOVE Cuts selected area to paste
buffer
COPY GOLD REMOVE Copies selected area to paste
buffer
UP-ARROW Up Moves up
DOWN-ARROW Down Moves down
LEFT-ARROW Left Moves up
RIGHT-ARROW Right Moves down
SHIFT-UP GOLD Up Shifts up by one line
SHIFT-DOWN GOLD Down Shifts down by one line
SHIFT-LEFT GOLD Left Shifts left by one column
SHIFT-RIGHT GOLD Right Shifts right by one column
LINE l,L Draws line connecting two
selected points
CIRCLE c,C Draws circle with center at
selected point
O-RECTANGLE r Draws an open rectangle in
selected area
S-RECTANGLE R Draws an solid rectangle in
selected area
O-ELLIPSE e Draws an open ellipse in selected
area
S-ELLIPSE E Draws an solid ellipse in
selected area
MIRROR-X x,X Mirrors pattern along X-axis
MIRROR-Y y,Y Mirrors pattern along Y-axis
MIRROR-45 / Mirrors pattern along 45-deg
diagonal
MIRROR-135 \ Mirrors pattern along 135-deg
diagonal
FILL f,F Depending on Cursor mode, fills
area
INVERT t,T Inverts the pixel state of all
pixels
UNDO u,U Undoes the previous function
REDRAW Ctrl/L Redraws the screen
SUSPEND Ctrl/Z Suspends the program
MENU Do Invokes the menu subsystem
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The following keypad diagrams show the key assignments for
the cursor and application keypads. In these diagrams, the
GOLD key functions are preceded by an asterisk.
+--------+---------+--------++----------+---------+----------+---------+
| | | *Copy || | |
| | | | Paste | Cut || Gold |
Help | Curs Mo. |Paste Mo.|
+--------+---------+--------++----------+---------+----------+---------+
| | | ||*UL Corner| *Top |*UR
Corner| | | Select | | || U&L
| Up | U&R |Type Mo. |
+--------+---------+--------++----------+---------+----------+---------+
|*Shift Up| || *L Side | *Center | *R
Side |*Clear |
| Up | || Left | Toggle | Right
| Wrap Mo.|
+--------+---------+--------++----------+---------+----------+---------+
|*Shift L| *Shift D|*Shift R||*LL Corner| *Bottom |*LR
Corner| | | Left | Down | Right || D&L
| Down | D&R | *Quit |
+--------+---------+--------++----------+---------+----------+
Exit |
| *Return from Use | *Refer
| |
| Use | Display
| |
+--------------------+----------+---------+
Starting an Edit Session [Toc] [Back]
An edit session is normally started by selecting the codeset
value of the UDC character to be edited under the current
locale. When you select a Character item from the
Edit menu, you are prompted by a submenu with two possible
choices: edit a new character or edit an existing character.
In either case, you must enter the character's codeset
value in hexadecimal. An error message is displayed
if you choose to edit a new character whose value already
exists in the database, or if you choose to edit an existing
character when it doesn't exist in the database.
Under the Japanese locales, automatic UDC code point mapping
is performed. This means that when you enter a new
UDC's codeset value for the current locale, the value is
also mapped, whenever possible, to corresponding values in
codesets for other Japanese locales. If you later decide
to modify the codeset value of a Japanese UDC character,
you are prompted to determine if the character value in
other codesets should be changed accordingly.
The following diagram shows the mapping between UDC
regions in the four supported Japanese codesets.
+-----------------+-------------------+-----------------+
| deckanji/ | eucJP | SJIS |
| sdeckanji | | |
+-----------------+-------------------+-----------------+
| 0xA121-0xAA7E | 0xF5A1-0XFEFE | 0xF040-0xF4FC |
| 0xAB21-0xB47E | 0x8FF5A1-0x8FFEFE | 0xF540-0xF9FC |
| 0xB521-0xBA7E | 0x8FEEA1-0x8FF3FE | 0xFA40-0xFCFC |
| 0xBB21-0xBB7E | 0x8FF4A1-0x8FF4FE | ----- |
| 0xBC21-0xFE7E | ----- | ----- |
+-----------------+-------------------+-----------------+
If a value in a particular codeset cannot be mapped to
another codeset, the value is left unchanged or unspecified.
After specifying the codeset value, you can proceed to
add, modify, or delete other editable character
attributes. Not all the character attributes can be
edited under any locale. For example, under the Japanese
locales, the collating value and input key sequence for a
UDC cannot be edited.
The dtterm terminal emulator does not support cedit functions.
If you attempt to use cedit under dtterm, the UDC
Manager utility may hang. Use the dxterm terminal emulator.
Commands: cgen(1)
Files: cp_dirs(4)
Others: i18n_intro(5), l10n_intro(5)
Writing Software for the International Market
cedit(1)
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