X logical font description
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X logical font description
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X logical font description (XLFD) is a font standard used by the X Window System and first published in 1988. Modern X software typically relies on the newer Fontconfig system instead, but XLFDs are still supported in current X window implementations for compatibility with legacy software. XLFD is intended to support: unique, descriptive font names that support simple pattern matching
multiple font vendors, arbitrary character sets, and encodings
naming and instancing of scalable and polymorphic
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encyclopedia
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Legacy standard for specifying fonts and their properties in the X Windows System
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_logical_font_description
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2024-02-28T19:50:40Z
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