Xlib Reference Manual for Version 11 of the X Window System

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Fonts

This appendix should tell you everything you need to know about the fonts in the X distribution. Not every font may be supported by particular server vendors, and some vendors may supplement the set. Also, a more descriptive naming scheme has been proposed, but it has not been accepted as part of the X standard at this writing.

Table J-1 lists the fonts provided in the standard X distribution. Fixed-width and variable-width fonts are listed in separated columns. Table J-2 describes the maximum metrics for characters in the font. This should help you choose a font and decide how much space to allow for strings using the font. Finally, all or most of the characters in each font are shown actual size, as they would appear on a 900 × 1180 pixel, 10″ × 13.5″ screen (Sun). On a screen with different pixel density, these fonts would appear a different size.

Table J-1. Fonts in the Standard Distribution

Table J-2 describes the maximum metrics for each font. These are the values of the max_bounds member of XFontStruct (which is an XCharStruct structure with the members shown in the table). Note that it is unlikely that any single character will be the biggest in all the measurements simultaneously; these describe the largest lbearing of any character in the font, the largest rbearing for any character in the font, and so on. For a description of each of the character measurements, ...