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