CDE specifies a set of generic standard application font names,
in several sizes, that can be used by applications running under
CDE on all platforms. Each CDE vendor maps the standard set of font
names to its available fonts. The mapping of font names to existing
fonts may vary from vendor to vendor.
When you use the standard application font names in your app-defaults
files, you can use a single app-defaults
file across all CDE platforms. If you do not use the standard font
names, you must supply a different app-defaults
files for each application on each CDE platform.
All CDE systems provide a set of 13 standard application font
names, in at least 6 sizes, that represent 12 generic design and
style variations (serif and sans serif), as well as a symbol font.
These standard names are provided in addition to the names of the
fonts that the standard names are mapped to for a particular CDE
platform. An additional four standard font names—to allow
both serif and sans serif designs in a monospaced font—may
also be provided by CDE platform vendors.
These 13 font names are provided in CDE platforms for the
locales using the
ISO 8859-1 character set. See the Common Desktop Environment:
Internationalization Programmer's Guide for information
on using standard font names in other locales.
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