Built-in Module fm

This module provides access to the IRIS Font Manager library. It is available only on Silicon Graphics machines. See also: 4Sight User's Guide, Section 1, Chapter 5: Using the IRIS Font Manager.

This is not yet a full interface to the IRIS Font Manager. Among the unsupported features are: matrix operations; cache operations; character operations (use string operations instead); some details of font info; individual glyph metrics; and printer matching.

It supports the following operations:

$\begin{funcdesc}{init}{} Initialization function. Calls \code{fminit()}. It is n... ...ed automatically the first time the \code{fm} module is imported. \end{funcdesc}$

$\begin{funcdesc}{findfont}{fontname} Return a font handle object. Calls \code{fmfindfont(\var{fontname})}. \end{funcdesc}$

$\begin{funcdesc}{enumerate}{} Returns a list of available font names. This is an interface to \code{fmenumerate()}. \end{funcdesc}$

$\begin{funcdesc}{prstr}{string} Render a string using the current font (see the ... ...)} font handle method below). Calls \code{fmprstr(\var{string})}. \end{funcdesc}$

$\begin{funcdesc}{setpath}{string} Sets the font search path. Calls \code{fmsetpath(string)}. (XXX Does not work!?!) \end{funcdesc}$

$\begin{funcdesc}{fontpath}{} Returns the current font search path. \end{funcdesc}$

Font handle objects support the following operations:

$\begin{funcdesc}{scalefont}{factor} Returns a handle for a scaled version of this font. Calls \code{fmscalefont(\var{fh}, \var{factor})}. \end{funcdesc}$

$\begin{funcdesc}{setfont}{} Makes this font the current font. Note: the effect i... ... font handle object is deleted. Calls \code{fmsetfont(\var{fh})}. \end{funcdesc}$

$\begin{funcdesc}{getfontname}{} Returns this font's name. Calls \code{fmgetfontname(\var{fh})}. \end{funcdesc}$

$\begin{funcdesc}{getcomment}{} Returns the comment string associated with this f... ... exception if there is none. Calls \code{fmgetcomment(\var{fh})}. \end{funcdesc}$

$\begin{funcdesc}{getfontinfo}{} Returns a tuple giving some pertinent data about... ...{yorig}, \var{xsize}, \var{ysize}, \var{height}, \var{nglyphs})}. \end{funcdesc}$

$\begin{funcdesc}{getstrwidth}{string} Returns the width, in pixels, of the strin... ...in this font. Calls \code{fmgetstrwidth(\var{fh}, \var{string})}. \end{funcdesc}$