NAME
Xorg::XLFD - X11 logical font description interface
SYNOPSIS
use Xorg::XLFD qw(get_xlfd);
my $desc = get_xlfd(); # all descriptions
my $fixed = get_xlfd('fixed'); # description for the 'fixed' fontDESCRIPTION
X logical font description is a font standard used by the X Window System. This module provides an interface for accessing these descriptions.
EXPORTS
None by default.
FUNCTIONS
get_xlfd()
get_xlfd() takes one optional argument, a family name. If no argument is provided, all available descriptions will be returned.
STRUCTURE
An example structure for the standard 'Fixed' font:
fixed => {
charset => [
"jisx0208.1983",
"iso10646",
"iso8859",
"koi8",
"jisx0201.1976",
0,
120,
180
],
foundary => [
"jis",
"misc",
"sony"
],
horiz_dpi => [
75,
100,
0,
120
],
pixels => [
0,
16,
24,
13,
14,
15,
18,
10,
20,
6,
7,
8,
9,
"ja",
"ko",
12
],
"set width" => [
"normal",
"semicondensed"
],
slant => [
"r",
"o"
],
spacing => [
"c",
100,
75
],
tenths => [
0,
110,
150,
170,
230,
100,
120,
130,
140,
70,
200,
60,
50,
80,
90,
13,
18
],
vert_dpi => [
75,
100
],
weight => [
"medium",
"bold"
],
width => [
0,
160,
240,
70,
80,
90,
60,
140,
100,
40,
50,
"c",
120
]
},XLFD SPECIFICATION
The XLFD is made up from 12/14 font properties as visualized below.
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--28-280-72-72-c-140-iso8859-1
| | | | | | | | | | | |__________ charset
| | | | | | | | | | |________________ avg. width
| | | | | | | | | |___________________ spacing
| | | | | | | | |_____________________ vert. dpi
| | | | | | | |________________________ horiz. dpi
| | | | | | |____________________________ 10th's of 1 pt
| | | | | |________________________________ pixels
| | | | |______________________________________ set width
| | | |__________________________________________ slant
| | |_______________________________________________ weight
| |________________________________________________________ family
|______________________________________________________________ foundaryCAVEATS
We are relying on an external application for fetching the available font descriptions. This is not good. We will look at the xlsfonts source code and try to come up with a smarter way.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs on rt.cpan.org or to magnus@trapd00r.se
AUTHOR
Magnus Woldrich
CPAN ID: WOLDRICH
m@japh.se
http://japh.seCONTRIBUTORS
None required yet.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2011 the Xorg::XLFD "AUTHOR" and "CONTRIBUTORS" as listed above.
LICENSE
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.