Using fonts

This section gives an overview of the Common Graphics font system. For more details, refer to the X11R4 reference manual. For further information on scalable fonts, refer to the X11R5 reference manual. The following classes comprise the font system:

CgFont

Represents a loaded font with a given size and style

CgFontStruct

Describes a CgFont. Contains information such as the number of characters in the font, font height, average character width, ascender height, descender height, whether the font is monospaced or proportional, and the dimensions of each character in the font

CgFontProp

Contains additional font properties, such as the font's name

CgCharStruct

Describes the dimensions of each character in the font

CgGC

Specifies the font to use in string drawing operations

CgDisplay

Loads and lists available fonts

CgTextItem

Is a data structure used by the drawText: method, which draws multiple text strings, each with different attributes, in a single drawing operation

CgLogicalFontDescription

Is a data structure used to assist in specifying and parsing font names