Name
font
- font
operation
[arg arg
...] The font command provides several facilities for defining named fonts and inspecting their attributes. If the window system does not have a font that matches the requested attributes, Tk makes a best guess. The following operations are supported:
- font actual
font
[-displayofwindow
] [option
] Return information on the actual attributes that are obtained when
font
is used onwindow
’s display. Ifoption
is specified, only the value of that attribute is returned. Otherwise, a list of all attributes and their values is returned.- font configure
fontName
[option
[value
[option value
...] ] ] Query or modify the desired attributes for the named font
fontName
in the same manner as the general widget configure method. The available attribute options are as follows:- -family
name
The case-insensitive font family name. The families
Courier
,Times
, andHelvetica
are guaranteed to be supported on all platforms.- -size
size
The desired size for the font in points (or pixels if
size
is negative).- -weight
weight
The thickness of the characters in the font.
Weight
may benormal
(the default) orbold
.- -slant
slant
How characters in the font are slanted away from the vertical.
Slant
may beroman
(the default) oritalic
.- -underline
boolean
Whether characters in font should be underlined. Default is
false
.- -overstrike
boolean
Whether a horizontal line is drawn through the middle of the characters of the font. Default is
false
.
- -family
- font create
[
fontName
] [option value
...] ] ] Create a new named ...
- font actual
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