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xlfont — load a font in the graphics context or query loaded font
xlfont(font-name,font-id) fonts=xlfont()
| font-name | : string, name of the font family. |
| font-id | : integer between 0 and 6. |
| fonts | : a column vector of currently loaded font names. |
Without any argument, xlfont() returns the list of currently loaded fonts.
With arguments, xlfont is used to load a new font at different sizes in the graphics context. The font must be available with size 8, 10, 12, 14, 18 and 24.
Default fonts are "Courier Roman" (0), "Symbol" (1), "Times Roman" (2), "Times Italic" (3), "Times Bold" (4) and "Times Bold Italic" (5).
font-name can be of 2 types:
| - | if it contains the character "%", it is supposed to be an X11 font name with %s in the size field of the name, for example "-b&h-lucidabright-demibold-r-normal--%s-*-75-75-p-*-iso8859-1" |
| - | if it does not contain the character "%", it is supposed to be an alias name and the fonts aliased by font-name08,...,font-name24 are loaded. |
| font-id | : give the id font-id to the loaded font font-name. |
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