From: Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: OT Read font notations like: -bitstream-terminal-bold-[...]-100-c-110-iso8859-1
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2022 09:59:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871r0y72pp.fsf@hope.eyrie.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zgnmgx18.fsf@local.lan> (hput's message of "Sun, 23 Jan 2022 12:52:03 -0500")
hput <hputn3@zohomail.com> writes:
> Sorry for leaving the newsgroup topic in the dust but I know there are
> very likely people here who can help.
> I once new a little about what the font notations like below meant:
> -bitstream-terminal-bold-r-normal--18-140-100-100-c-110-iso8859-1
> But have lost some of it out of my pea brain. I know the `-c-'
> bit means its good for my use .. and that `iso8859-1' puts it in
> my neck of the woods but more of the exact meaning has left town.
> I hoped someone here can steer me to URL or such that explains it in
> detail.
This is an X Logical Font Description, which is the old-style font
specification mechanism for X Windows. (It's slowly being supplanted by
newer font mechanisms such as fontconfig, but still shows up in a lot of
places.)
There's a fairly good breakdown of the elements here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/X_Logical_Font_Description
--
Russ Allbery (eagle@eyrie.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-23 17:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-23 17:52 hput
2022-01-23 17:59 ` Russ Allbery [this message]
2022-01-23 18:23 ` hput
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=871r0y72pp.fsf@hope.eyrie.org \
--to=eagle@eyrie.org \
--cc=ding@gnus.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).