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In memoriam: Linux evangelist and Linux.com editor Joe Barr

07-11-2008 12:22 PM
Our colleague Joe Barr sometimes described himself as a doddering old geek. Many knew him as a Linux evangelist; others knew him from his ham radio activities. And those of us who worked with Joe knew him in all of his sometime irascible, often funny moods. Joe was always one of our favorite people, and we are devastated to report that he died at home, unexpectedly, last night.



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X11Font(3)						User Contributed Perl Documentation						X11Font(3)

NAME
Tk::Font - a class for finding X Fonts SYNOPSIS
use Tk::X11Font; $font = $widget->X11Font(foundry => 'adobe', family => 'times', point => 120 ); $font = $widget->X11Font('*-courier-medium-r-normal-*-*'); DESCRIPTION
This module can be use to interrogate the X server what fonts are avaliable. METHODS
Foundry( [ $val ] ) Family( [ $val ] ) Weight( [ $val ] ) Slant( [ $val ] ) Swidth( [ $val ] ) Adstyle( [ $val ] ) Pixel( [ $val ] ) Point( [ $val ] ) Xres( [ $val ] ) Yres( [ $val ] ) Space( [ $val ] ) Avgwidth( [ $val ] ) Registry( [ $val ] ) Encoding( [ $val ] ) Set the given field in the font name to $val if given and return the current or previous value Name( [ $max ] ) In a list context it returns a list of all font names that match the fields given. It will return a maximum of $max names, or 128 if $max is not given. In a scalar contex it returns the first matching name or undef Clone( [ key => value, [ ...]] ) Create a duplicate of the curent font object and modify the given fields AUTHOR
Graham Barr <Graham.Barr@tiuk.ti.com> HISTORY
11-Jan-96 Initial version 08-Nov-98 Renamed for Tk800.012 COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1995-1996 Graham Barr. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.16.3 2014-06-10 X11Font(3)