Doc/lib/libfm.tex

   1 \section{\module{fm} ---
   2          \emph{Font Manager} interface}
   3
   4 \declaremodule{builtin}{fm}
   5   \platform{IRIX}
   6 \modulesynopsis{\emph{Font Manager} interface for SGI workstations.}
   7
   8
   9 This module provides access to the IRIS \emph{Font Manager} library.
  10 \index{Font Manager, IRIS}
  11 \index{IRIS Font Manager}
  12 It is available only on Silicon Graphics machines.
  13 See also: \emph{4Sight User's Guide}, Section 1, Chapter 5: ``Using
  14 the IRIS Font Manager.''
  15
  16 This is not yet a full interface to the IRIS Font Manager.
  17 Among the unsupported features are: matrix operations; cache
  18 operations; character operations (use string operations instead); some
  19 details of font info; individual glyph metrics; and printer matching.
  20
  21 It supports the following operations:
  22
  23 \begin{funcdesc}{init}{}
  24 Initialization function.
  25 Calls \cfunction{fminit()}.
  26 It is normally not necessary to call this function, since it is called
  27 automatically the first time the \module{fm} module is imported.
  28 \end{funcdesc}
  29
  30 \begin{funcdesc}{findfont}{fontname}
  31 Return a font handle object.
  32 Calls \code{fmfindfont(\var{fontname})}.
  33 \end{funcdesc}
  34
  35 \begin{funcdesc}{enumerate}{}
  36 Returns a list of available font names.
  37 This is an interface to \cfunction{fmenumerate()}.
  38 \end{funcdesc}
  39
  40 \begin{funcdesc}{prstr}{string}
  41 Render a string using the current font (see the \function{setfont()} font
  42 handle method below).
  43 Calls \code{fmprstr(\var{string})}.
  44 \end{funcdesc}
  45
  46 \begin{funcdesc}{setpath}{string}
  47 Sets the font search path.
  48 Calls \code{fmsetpath(\var{string})}.
  49 (XXX Does not work!?!)
  50 \end{funcdesc}
  51
  52 \begin{funcdesc}{fontpath}{}
  53 Returns the current font search path.
  54 \end{funcdesc}
  55
  56 Font handle objects support the following operations:
  57
  58 \setindexsubitem{(font handle method)}
  59 \begin{funcdesc}{scalefont}{factor}
  60 Returns a handle for a scaled version of this font.
  61 Calls \code{fmscalefont(\var{fh}, \var{factor})}.
  62 \end{funcdesc}
  63
  64 \begin{funcdesc}{setfont}{}
  65 Makes this font the current font.
  66 Note: the effect is undone silently when the font handle object is
  67 deleted.
  68 Calls \code{fmsetfont(\var{fh})}.
  69 \end{funcdesc}
  70
  71 \begin{funcdesc}{getfontname}{}
  72 Returns this font's name.
  73 Calls \code{fmgetfontname(\var{fh})}.
  74 \end{funcdesc}
  75
  76 \begin{funcdesc}{getcomment}{}
  77 Returns the comment string associated with this font.
  78 Raises an exception if there is none.
  79 Calls \code{fmgetcomment(\var{fh})}.
  80 \end{funcdesc}
  81
  82 \begin{funcdesc}{getfontinfo}{}
  83 Returns a tuple giving some pertinent data about this font.
  84 This is an interface to \code{fmgetfontinfo()}.
  85 The returned tuple contains the following numbers:
  86 \code{(}\var{printermatched}, \var{fixed_width}, \var{xorig},
  87 \var{yorig}, \var{xsize}, \var{ysize}, \var{height},
  88 \var{nglyphs}\code{)}.
  89 \end{funcdesc}
  90
  91 \begin{funcdesc}{getstrwidth}{string}
  92 Returns the width, in pixels, of \var{string} when drawn in this font.
  93 Calls \code{fmgetstrwidth(\var{fh}, \var{string})}.
  94 \end{funcdesc}