OT Read font notations like: -bitstream-terminal-bold-[...]-100-c-110-iso8859-1

OT Read font notations like: -bitstream-terminal-bold-[...]-100-c-110-iso8859-1

[hput]

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.

My googling hasn't gotten the close details even though I found this:

  https://twiserandom.com/unix/x11-fonts-a-tutorial/index.html#X11_core_font_system

Tells quite a lot but still haven't learnt the details I want.

The meaning of -c-, -m-, -p-  and more.

Something that explains each notation in detail is what I'm after.

Re: OT Read font notations like: -bitstream-terminal-bold-[...]-100-c-110-iso8859-1

[Russ Allbery]

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/>

Re: OT Read font notations like: -bitstream-terminal-bold-[...]-100-c-110-iso8859-1

[hput]

Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org> writes:

>> 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

Exactly what I was looking for ... thank you sir.