[devel] XLFD font naming convention

[Ilya Anfimov]

On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 06:09:02PM +0100, Lucien Gentis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When in an X application, we call (with 14 fields) :
> 
> XListFonts(serveur, "-*-*-*-*-*-*-0-0-*-*-*-0-*-*", 10000, &nbFonts);
> 
> we get scalable fonts with fields 7,8,12 at "0" like :
> 
> -bitstream-charter-medium-i-normal--0-0-75-75-p-0-iso8859-1
> -dec-terminal-medium-r-normal--0-0-75-75-c-0-dec-dectech
> 
> but if we call :
> 
> XListFonts(serveur, "-*-*-*-*-*-*-0-*-*-*-*-*-*-*", 10000, &nbFonts);
> 
> we also get fonts with only field 7 at "0" like :
> 
> -bitstream-charter-bold-r-normal--0-120-100-100-p-0-iso8859-1
> -adobe-new century schoolbook-bold-r-normal--0-120-100-100-p-0-iso10646-1
> 
> what about these fonts ?

 Well, X Logical Font Description Conventions
                Version 1.5
		says (section 5):

  "For a scalable font source, a scalable font name for each
  character set is included in the list.  In addition to
  the scalable font name, specific derived instance names
  may also be included in the list."
  ...
  "Because some existing applications rely on seeing a collection
  of point and pixel sizes, server vendors are strongly
  encouraged in the near term to provide a mechanism for
  including, for each scalable font name, a set of specific
  derived instance names. For font sources that contain a set of
  specific derived instance names."

 So  it  is OK to have that in font list. It must be --0-0-  base
name for every such font, and if it is not -- there is  an  error
somewhere in your X server or font server, and probably should be
fixed. If there are base entries -- then you  don't need them.

> 
> It's told in doc that scalable fonts must have their fields 7, 8 and 12 at
> "0"
> 
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