ARPUS/ce, Version 2.6.2 (03/10/05) (SCCS 1.5) _______________________________________________________________________________ fl [<font>] "font load" DESCRIPTION: The font load command tells Ce to use a different font in the current window. The 'xlsfonts' command, located in your system's X11 bin directory (normally '/usr/X11/bin/xlsfonts'), lists the X fonts that are available on your system. Many of the font names listed by 'xlsfonts' are long. Those names, an example of which follows, do conform to a convention: Example: -adobe-times-bold-r-normal--8-80-75-75-p-47-iso8859-1 1.... 2.... 3... 4 5..... 6 7. 8.... 9 10 11....... 1. foundry origin of font 2. family major font type 3. weight medium or bold stroke weight 4. slant r=regular, i=italic, o=oblique 5. set width font width: normal, condensed, narrow, double 6. pixels font height in pixels 7. points point size of font in 10ths of a point 8. resolution horizontal and vertical resolution in dpi 9. spacing m=monospace, p=proportional, c=character cell 10. avg average character width in 10ths of a pixel 11. character ISO defined character set A convenient way to view the variety of fonts is as follows: 1. Create a read-only window that contains a list of fonts as reported by the 'xlsfonts' utility: % xlsfonts | cv 2. Define a key that will load the font whose name is pointed at by the text cursor: kd <key> tl;dr;tr;xc;tdm;es 'fl ';tr;xp;tr;en ke # a good choice is kd *z tl;dr;tr;xc;tdm;es 'fl ';tr;xp;tr;en ke # This is Alt/z 3. Place the cursor on a font name in the read-only window and then press the key that was defined in step (2) above. Typing 'fl' with no arguments instructs ce to print in the ce output window the name of the font that is currently being used. The 'fl' command also accepts wild cards in the standard X format. For example: "fl *-r-normal-*-14-*" will find and load a 14 point font with regular slant and normal set width. A subsequent fl command will show the name of the font actually loaded. RELATED HELP FILES: bgc (Background Color) fgc (Foreground Color) geo (Window Geometry) lineno (Line Numbers) rs (Refresh Screen) rw (Refresh Window) xresources (X resources & args) support (customer support) _______________________________________________________________________________ Copyright (c) 2005, Robert Styma Consulting. All rights reserved.