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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: FONT PROBLEMS
Message-ID: <8911081408.AA11962@expire.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 8 Nov 89 14:08:12 GMT
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    Given a variable of type XFontStruct *, I must determine what kind of font
    it is, (eg. its name, whether it is italic, bold or normal, and also
    its point size).

If it's an XLFD-conforming font, then it will typically have properties you can
use to determine these kinds of things, but they aren't required.  If you have
the name used to open the font, and it's an XLFD-conforming name, then you can
parse it to obtain information.

    My guess is that the font id is a unique identifier
    to identify the font structure and *NOT* the type of the font right?

It identifies a server resource.  It does not identify font characteristics.

    What I need is some kind of mechanism  which tells me that
    font1 and font2 are one and the same.

There's no way to determine this, except by comparing the names used to
open the fonts (which in some sense it still not precise due to aliases),
or by doing some extremely horrible data comparisons you don't what to
think about.