text:font
List of: Scheme Extensions
Subjects: Text
Contents: Kernel

Action: Gets a text entity's font.

Filename: kern/kern_scm/text_scm.cxx

Syntax: (text:font text-entity)

Arg Types: text-entity text

Returns: string

Description: This extension returns the font name assigned to the text-entity, which is enclosed in quotes. The font name is composed of foundry, the family, the weight, the slant, and the set-width. In X Windows, use the xlsfonts tool to display a list of available fonts.


text-entity specifies a text entity.

Example: ; text:font

; Create a text entity.

(define words (text (position 5 10 15)


"Hello World"


"new century schoolbook-bold-i-normal" 20))

;; words

; Get the font value of the text entity.

(text:font words)

;; "new century schoolbook-bold-i-normal"
PDF/KERN/15SCR.PDF
HTM/DATA/KERN/KERN/15SCR/0024.HTM