Window Font

Each window may use a different font; this font will be used for rendering all text in the window. When windows are created they inherit their font from the current window at the time.

Currently Jade only allows the use of fixed-width fonts; proportional fonts won't work properly.

Command: set-font font-name &optional window

This function sets the font used in the window window (or the current window) to the font named by the string font-name.

The format of the string font-name depends on the underlying windowing system:

X11

Simply use the standard name of the font, asterisk characters work like usual (i.e. match zero or more characters).

Amiga

This is different to the normal Amiga conventions, use the name of the font followed by a dash and then the size of the font. For example to get an 8-point topaz font, use `topaz.font-8'.

When this function is called interactively it will prompt for font-name.

Function: font-name &optional window

Returns the name of the font being used in the specified window.

Note that on an Amiga this will only return the name, and not the size of the font. For example, if set-font has been used with an argument of "topaz.font-8", a call to font-name would produce "topaz.font".

Function: font-x-size &optional window

Returns the width (in pixels) of a character in the specified window's font.

(font-x-size)
    => 7

Function: font-y-size &optional window

Returns the height in pixels of each character in the window's font.

(font-y-size)
    => 13

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