Bug#299271: xxdiff 3.0.2 does not respect xxdiffrc FontText or --textfont (fwd)

[Tomas Pospisek]

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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:20:31 -0800
From: Dave Cohrs
To: Tomas Pospisek
Subject: Re: Bug#299271: xxdiff 3.0.2 does not respect xxdiffrc FontText or
    --textfont
Tomas Pospisek wrote:
Could you please check the attached package? Does it fix the problem
you've reported?
Sort Of.
It appears xxdiff no longer accepts XLFD font specs, neither in the
"FontText" property nor as the argument to the --textfont CLI option.
However, the documentation (manual.html) still says it does.
I don't recogize the format of the font spec the wants, but at least the
xxdiff in xxdiff_3.1-1_i386.deb includes an example of a valid font when
you run "xxdiff --list-resources".
It turns out that both xxdiff-3.0.2 and xxdiff-3.1 want fonts to be
specified using the following notation:
FontText: "Lucidatypewriter,9,-1,2,50,0,0,0,1,0"
This format is neither XLFD nor fontconfig format.  I have no idea what it
is.  I'm guessing it's a Qt-specific format since I found similar things in
my .qtrc file, but I haven't been able to find a Qt document that documents
this format yet.  The 1st field is the font name.  The second some sort of
size, but it's not the point size (specifying 9 displays a font that's
about the size of a 12pt font on my screen).  After that, I have no idea.
But now that I know what it is, I think that what's requires is to update
the xxdiff documentation to document this way of specifying a font for
those of us that don't know the internals of Qt.
Thanks for looking into this!
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