3 <title>font - Andromeda X windows Encapsulation</title>
15 A <em>font</em> describes the sizes and shapes of displayable text characters.
18 <tr><th colspan=2>Operations</th></tr>
21 <td width=150><a href="font_font.html">font</a></td>
22 <td>font contructors and destructors</td>
24 <td><a href="font_ID.html">ID</a></td>
25 <td>Obtain X font id number</td>
27 <td><a href="font_load.html">Load</a></td>
28 <td>Load a font in the workstation</td>
30 <td><a href="font_textwidth.html">TextWidth</a></td>
31 <td>Compute the width of a string</td>
33 <td><a href="font_ascent.html">ascent</a></td>
34 <td>Compute the height of the font above the baseline
36 <td><a href="font_descent.html">descent</a></td>
37 <td>Compute the height of the font below the baseline