'FONT' Define/List Fonts

GUI Display/Printer

Formats

1.	Define Font (with Specification):	'FONT'(name$,size[,attrib$[,angle]])
2.	Define Font (via Special Names):	'FONT'({"*SYSFONT" \| "*GUIFONT" \| "*CURFONT"})
3.	List Channel's Fonts:	'FONT'(LIST[,chan*])
4.	List Fonts, Properties:	'FONT'(LIST PROPERTIES FOR [name$][,chan])
5.	List Sizes for a Font:	'FONT'(LIST name$)

Where:

angle

Slant for printing, in degrees. Optional.

attrib$

Font attributes. Optional string expression. Valid codes include:

&	Underscore the character following the "&" (as in hot keys)
B	Bold
C	Center text
F	Show focus lines around text
I	Italics
N	Numeric data alignment
R	Right justify text
S	Fills only text background (not whole region) with chosen colour
U	Underscore ("_")
W	Word wrap
#	Same as N

You can also control the character set:

!	Use symbol character set (char. set 2)
O	Use OEM character set (char. set 255)
J	Use Japanese character set (char. set 128)
D	Use character set 1 or current default for the given font
%nnn	Use specific Windows character set nnn (*Default* is ANSI, character set 0)

chan

Logical file number or channel.

*CURFONT

Keyword representing the current graphic font being used. (added in PxPlus v10.10)

*GUIFONT

Keyword representing the dialogue font used by standard MS Windows applications for dialogues.

*SYSFONT

Keyword representing the default graphical system font, typically "System,0.66,B".

name$

Font name. String expression. Font must exist in the system.

size

Numeric. Use positive values for font sizes relative to the current default for the device (.5 for half size, 2 for double, etc.). Use negative sizes for absolute font size in points.

As a rough guide to equivalent sizes:

Point size -12 = 6 LPI, 10 CPI
Point size -10 = 7.2 LPI, 12 CPI
Point size - 7  = 10 LPI, 16 CPI

Description

'FONT' defines the current font and specifications. It can also be used to return comma-delimited font and property (attribute) lists for the channel (default is the terminal) or a size list for a specific (existing) font.

Two special font names may be used in place of the specifications:

	*SYSFONT	Default graphical system font
	*GUIFONT	Standard MS Windows dialogue font

These fonts will change based on the operating system version and theme. The new special font names may be used anywhere a font specification is given.

A new *CURFONT font may be specified, which indicates that the system should retain the current font selected. (as of PxPlus v10.10)

Example

f$="MS Serif";
print 'font'(list F$) ! Returns sizes for MS Serif font: 13,16,19,21,27,35,10,11,
print 'font'("MS Serif",-11)

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