snl@CUYAHOGA.EDRC.CMU.EDU (Sean Levy) (06/17/89)
Okay, I've answered most of my meandering questions myself by reading the introductory paragraph of section 6.5 (beating myself all the while with a big olive branch that says "RTFM" on it... it's normally reserved for users...) and looking at XFontInfo.c and XLoadFont.c. It comes down to this: how do I get the name of the font referred to by a font ID? sean levy - research programmer / engineering design research center / cmu internet: snl@edrc.cmu.edu bitnet: snl@edrc.cmu.edu%CMCCVMA uucp: ...!harvard!cs.cmu.edu!snl 2wire: 412 268 2257 dirt: edrc / cmu / doherty hall a219 / pittsburgh pa 15213 -- sean levy - research programmer / engineering design research center / cmu internet: snl@edrc.cmu.edu bitnet: snl@edrc.cmu.edu%CMCCVMA uucp: ...!harvard!cs.cmu.edu!snl 2wire: 412 268 2257 dirt: edrc / cmu / doherty hall a219 / pittsburgh pa 15213 --
rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (06/19/89)
how do I get the name of the font referred to by a font ID? The protocol does not provide a way, sorry. (If the font follows the X Logical Font Description Conventions, then you can reconstruct the name from several of the font properties, but that's rather cumbersome.)