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>  
	This window (labelled <TT
CLASS="GUILABEL"
><B
>Font</B
></TT
>) is the main window
	used for choosing the font. It is shown in <A
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>Figure 1. GNOME Font Selector</B
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>Basic usage</A
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>	To choose a font, select the font family
	(for example, <TT
CLASS="GUILABEL"
><B
>courier</B
></TT
>) in the left
	column, then select font style&#8212;that is, weight and slant (for
	example, <TT
CLASS="GUILABEL"
><B
>bold italic</B
></TT
>), and finally, font size. 
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> The <TT
CLASS="GUILABEL"
><B
>Preview</B
></TT
> window will show you how
	the selected font looks like. By default, it shows the Latin
	alphabet; you can also type any text you like in this window,
	and it will be shown using the selected font.
      </P
><P
>	To find more information about the selected font, you can switch to
	the <A
HREF="fontinfo.html"
><TT
CLASS="GUILABEL"
><B
>Font
	information</B
></TT
> window</A
>. 
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><P
>	If the font selector utility was launched by some application,
	such as one of the preferences dialogs, you will have buttons
	<B
CLASS="GUIBUTTON"
>OK</B
> and <B
CLASS="GUIBUTTON"
>Cancel</B
> at
	the bottom of the window. After you are satisfied with the
	chosen font, you can press <B
CLASS="GUIBUTTON"
>OK</B
> and the
	name of the selected font will be returned to the launching
	application.
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><P
>	If the font selector utility was started from the menu or from
	the command line, it will have buttons
	<B
CLASS="GUIBUTTON"
>Apply</B
> and <B
CLASS="GUIBUTTON"
>Close</B
>.
	Pressing <B
CLASS="GUIBUTTON"
>Apply</B
> button will copy the
	full name (XLFD) of the selected font to the clipboard, so
	that it can be pasted into any other area of the screen by
	pressing the middle mouse button. Pressing
	<B
CLASS="GUIBUTTON"
>Apply</B
> button also shows the name of the
	selected font in the <TT
CLASS="GUILABEL"
><B
>Selection</B
></TT
> field at
	the top of the screen.
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> If there are several fonts with the same family name, the
	font foundry (usually the vendor name) will also be shown in
	the left field, for example: <TT
CLASS="GUILABEL"
><B
>courier(adobe)</B
></TT
>,
	<TT
CLASS="GUILABEL"
><B
>courier(bitstream)</B
></TT
>.
      </P
><P
>	<TT
CLASS="GUILABEL"
><B
>Font Style</B
></TT
> field shows more than just
	font weight and slant. Namely, it also shows font's spacing,
	which can be monospaced (<TT
CLASS="GUILABEL"
><B
>[M]</B
></TT
>),
	character-cell (<TT
CLASS="GUILABEL"
><B
>[C]</B
></TT
>), or proportional (no
	label). In monospaced and character-cell fonts, each character
	has the same width; in proportional fonts, the character width
	varies, which usually looks better.  

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> Unfortunately, terminal emulation programs (including
	  <TT
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>xterm</TT
> and
	  <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>gnome-terminal</TT
>) and many programs
	  initially designed to work in a terminal (such as
	  <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
> emacs</TT
> editor) can only properly
	  display monospaced and character cell fonts.
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> 
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>	Finally, <TT
CLASS="GUILABEL"
><B
>Font Style</B
></TT
> field also shows all
	possible character sets available for given font (if there is
	more than one). Roughly speaking, character set describes
	symbols of what alphabet are shown in this font. The most
	common charset is <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>iso8859-1</TT
>, which includes
	all Latin letters, punctuation marks, numbers and enough
	accented letters to cover majority of Western European
	languages. More information is given in <A
HREF="xlfd.html"
>the section called <I
>Font attributes in X Window System and XLFD</I
></A
>.
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><P
> You will also notice that in the
        <TT
CLASS="GUILABEL"
><B
>Size</B
></TT
> field, some font sizes are marked
        with stars. These are the sizes of unscaled bitmap fonts; they
        usually look better than other type (scalable and scaled
        bitmap) fonts &#8212; see <A
HREF="filter.html"
>the section called <I
>Filter window</I
></A
>.  
     </P
><P
> You can configure the font selector dialog to show only
        those fonts which meet certain criteria. This is done in the
        <A
HREF="filter.html"
><TT
CLASS="GUILABEL"
><B
>Filter</B
></TT
>
        window</A
>. If you later decide that you again want to see
        all the fonts, just press the button <B
CLASS="GUIBUTTON"
>Reset
        Filter</B
> either in the main window or in the filter
        window.
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