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