On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 10:24:03PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote:
> When I call to XListFonts with the pattern "-*-cmsy-*" (or equivalently, when
> typing xlsfonts -fn "-*-cmsy-*" in the shell), I get only one result as
> expected:
> -bluesky-cmsy-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-adobe-fontspecific
>
> However, when I use the pattern "-*-cmsy-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*", I get
> two results:
> -bluesky-cmsy-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-adobe-fontspecific
> -bluesky-cmsy-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-m-0-adobe-fontspecific
man xlsfonts :
-o This option indicates that xlsfonts should do an OpenFont (and
QueryFont, if appropriate) rather than a ListFonts.
This is useful if ListFonts or ListFontsWithInfo fail to list a
known font (as is the case with some scaled font
systems).
The behaviour you are seeing looks perhaps a little odd ... but it is related
to the fact that listing all the available font specifications with scalable fonts
makes no
sense.
My X book says :
The X server and font server are only required to match scalable fonts when the
font name pattrern they are passed is a well-formed one. A well-formed font
name is one that contains all 14 hyphens specified in the XLFD convention.
Wildcards are permitted for any field, but may not replace multiple fields. If
XListFonts() is passed a pattrern that is not well-formed, it may not include
scalable fonts in the search at all.
- A.3.1 of Xlib Programming Manual , Adrian Nye
