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authorAlan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>2015-04-12 10:02:23 -0700
committerAlan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>2015-04-12 10:02:31 -0700
commit06a26945d82cfd0f92a16e6993e5832ad70aead0 (patch)
tree2a737fe97ea0ca7cfd2814c631049ff12b01c400 /guide/fonts.mdwn
parent4e37d0d31c8b3d6675ed7ee9e6a485f526a0d612 (diff)
guide/fonts: add link to XLFD spec
Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>
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@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ of it first may be helpful in understanding the following sections.
In the original X11 font mechanism, an X client which wants to render
some text in the Times New Roman font at a size of 12 points would
-first call XLoadFont() to open the font using the XLFD font name
+first call XLoadFont() to open the font using the
+[XLFD font name](http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/xorg-docs/xlfd/xlfd.html)
"-adobe-times-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-64-iso8859-1". The server
opens that font (using routines in libXfont) and returns an XID associated
with the open font, which the application then stores in the relevant GC's