             Font Handling in Tk

1. DESCRIPTION

The font package is a first try to solve the font handling problems in 
tk until a real tk solution becomes available.

It is an all-tcl package that implements logical font names instead of
the rather X-ish XLFDs and allows attributes (eg bold, italic) to be
set without fiddling with their positions or real names in the XLFD.
Here is an example:
     button .b -font [Font get LabelFont weight=bold slant=italic]


2. LOCATION

The font package can be found in the standard location at alcatel
(currently in incomming)
     ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/pub/tcl/extensions/font-1.1.tar.gz

or on
     ftp://finwds01.tu-graz.ac.at:/pub/incomming/font-1.1.tar.gz


3. INSTALLATION

This is plain tcl code, should work with any tcl7.x and tk[34].x
versions. Tested with tcl7.5b and tk4.1b. 
It contains just a single file - font.tcl - which can be sourced into
your package.


4. DOCUMENTATION

See the documentation inside of font.tcl (read the source, Luke!)


5. COPYRIGHT
this software falls under the terms of the GNU copyleft.


6. QUESTIONS and BUG REPORTS
You can contact me at
      risc@finwds01.tu-graz.ac.at
      Richard Schwaninger
      softWorks
      Theodor-Koernerstr. 173
      A-8010 Graz, Austria
