* OT Read font notations like: -bitstream-terminal-bold-[...]-100-c-110-iso8859-1
@ 2022-01-23 17:52 hput
2022-01-23 17:59 ` Russ Allbery
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From: hput @ 2022-01-23 17:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
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.
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* Re: OT Read font notations like: -bitstream-terminal-bold-[...]-100-c-110-iso8859-1
2022-01-23 17:52 OT Read font notations like: -bitstream-terminal-bold-[...]-100-c-110-iso8859-1 hput
@ 2022-01-23 17:59 ` Russ Allbery
2022-01-23 18:23 ` hput
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From: Russ Allbery @ 2022-01-23 17:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
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/>
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* Re: OT Read font notations like: -bitstream-terminal-bold-[...]-100-c-110-iso8859-1
2022-01-23 17:59 ` Russ Allbery
@ 2022-01-23 18:23 ` hput
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: hput @ 2022-01-23 18:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
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.
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