Standard Application Fonts

Default Font Names

The set of standard application default font names is defined by the XLFD field name values described in Table 2-2 .

Table 2-2 Field Name Values for Standard Application Font Names

Field	Value	Description
FOUNDRY	dt	CDE name
FAMILY_NAME	application	CDE standard application font name
WEIGHT_NAME	medium or bold	Weight of the font
SLANT	r i	Roman  Italic
SET_WIDTH	normal	Normal set width
ADD_STYLE	sans serif	Sans serif font  Serif font
PIXEL_SIZE	*	Platform dependent
POINT_SIZE	pointsize	Point size of the desired font
RESOLUTION_X	*	Platform dependent
RESOLUTION_Y	*	Platform dependent
AVERAGE_WIDTH	p m	Proportional  Monospace
NUMERIC FIELD	*	Platform dependent
CHAR_SET_REGISTRY	iso8859-1	Defining standards authority
ENCODING	1	Character set number

The standard names are available using the regular X Windows XLFD font- naming scheme. When properly specified with appropriate wildcards for the platform-dependent fields, a CDE font name is guaranteed to open a valid, corresponding platform-dependent font. The XLFD name returned from a call to the Xlib XListFont function, however, is not guaranteed to be the same on all CDE platforms.

Using these values, the XLFD pattern

-dt-application-*

matches the full set of CDE standard application font names on a given platform. The pattern

-dt-application-bold-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-p-*-*-*-

matches the bold, proportionally spaced CDE fonts, both serif and sans serif. And the pattern

-dt-application-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-m-*-*-*-

matches the monospaced fonts (whether serif or sans serif, or both).

The full set of CDE Standard Application Font Names can be represented as follows:

-dt-application-bold-i-normal-serif-*-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1
-dt-application-bold-r-normal-serif-*-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1
-dt-application-medium-i-normal-serif-*-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1
-dt-application-medium-r-normal-serif-*-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1
-dt-application-bold-i-normal-sans-*-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1
-dt-application-bold-r-normal-sans-*-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1
-dt-application-medium-i-normal-sans-*-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1
-dt-application-medium-r-normal-sans-*-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1
-dt-application-bold-i-normal-*-*-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1
-dt-application-bold-r-normal-*-*-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1
-dt-application-medium-i-normal-*-*-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1
-dt-application-medium-r-normal-*-*-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1
-dt-application-medium-r-normal-*-*-*-*-*-p-*-dtsymbol-1

Point Sizes for Standard Application Fonts

The complete set of point sizes available for each of the standard application font names is determined by the set of fonts shipped with a vendor's CDE platform, whether bitmapped only or both bitmapped and scalable outline. The minimum set of sizes required and available on all CDE platforms corresponds to the standard sizes of bitmapped fonts that make up the default mapping for X11R5: 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, and 24.

For example, the entire set of six sizes of the plain monospaced font can be represented by the patterns:

-dt-application-medium-r-normal-*-80-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1
-dt-application-medium-r-normal-*-100-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1
-dt-application-medium-r-normal-*-120-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1
-dt-application-medium-r-normal-*-140-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1
-dt-application-medium-r-normal-*-180-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1
-dt-application-medium-r-normal-*-240-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1

These patterns match the corresponding standard font name on any CDE platform, even though the numeric fields other than POINTSIZE may be different on various platforms, and the matched fonts may be either serif or sans serif, depending on how the vendor implemented the set of standard names.

Standard Application Font Names in app-defaults files

You can code a single app-defaults file to specify font resources for your application and use it across all CDE platforms. Because the parts of the standard names that are defined are the same across different vendors' platforms, you can specify these values in the resource specification in the app-defaults file. However, you must use wildcards for the other fields (PIXEL_SIZE, RESOLUTION_X, RESOLUTION_Y, and AVERAGE_WIDTH) because they may vary across platforms. For example, to specify some of the default resource needs for an application named appOne, you might use:

appOne*headFont:
-dt-application-bold-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1 

appOne*linkFont:
-dt-application-bold-i-normal-sans-*-100-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1

As another example, suppose that appTwo running on a vendor's platform defines two font resources for headings and hypertext links. appTwo uses a 14 point bold, serif font (Lucidabright bold) and a 12-point bold, italic sans serif font (Lucida bold-italic). You would then change the font definition from:

apptwo *headingFont:
-b&h-lucidabright-bold-r-normal--20-140-100-100-p-127-iso8859-1 

apptwo *linkFont:   
-b&h-lucida-bold-i-normal-sans-17-120-100-100-p-96-iso8859-1

to:

apptwo *headingFont: 
-dt-application-bold-r-normal-serif-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1

apptwo *linkFont:   
-dt-application-bold-i-normal-sans-*-120-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1

in your app-defaults file. Even though you may not know the names of the fonts on other CDE platforms, these platform-independent patterns specified with the CDE standard application font names match appropriate fonts on each platform.

You encode them exactly as shown, complete with the * wildcards, in your resource definitions. By applying the wildcards to the numeric fields other than point size, you ensure that the resources match CDE fonts on all platforms, even if the exact pixel size or average width of the fonts is slightly different.

See the DtStdAppFontNames(5) man page for more information.