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Help Information for TkFont 1.0
TkFont is used to display fonts. There are two main windows: a selection window with the list of fonts and the menus, and a sample text window with a sample of text displayed in the current font.
The text in the sample window is editable. If you close the sample window, the program will not exit, and the sample will be recreated the next time you select a font. To exit the program, close the main window or use the "Exit" command from the "File" menu.
Pressing the left button on a font name selects it and automatically displays the sample text in that font. Pressing the right mouse button runs 'xfd', a standard X windows utility that displays all the characters in a font. Pressing the middle button runs 'xlsfonts -ll' on the fontname, which brings up a window full of all sorts of information about the font. For some reason, this sometimes comes up with the same information repeated two or three times. I don't know why - it's not in *my* program! :)
At the bottom of the main window is the name of the current font. This can be edited, and pressing "Enter" while the mouse cursor is over this name will set the current font to whatever is shown there.
Scalable fonts can be displayed in any size. To select the size that a scaled font will be shown at, use the "Sizes" menu. The initial size is 24. Values not in the menu can be shown by directly editing the fontname at the bottom of the window.
Most X servers can anamorphically scale scalable fonts, meaning that the width can be changed relative to the height. To make a scalable font wider or thinner, use the "Aspect" menu. The default value is 1:1. Values not in the menu can be shown by directly editing the fontname at the bottom of the window.
You can do anamorphic scaling of bitmapped fonts by manually changing the 'avgwidth' field (3rd from the right). Making it smaller makes the font narrower, and making it larger makes it wider. It looks very ugly, though.
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