PS_symbol_name(3)

💖 PS_symbol_name(3) 💖

okay bestie, so this one lives in the Library Functions Manual — section 3, the library calls section, you know the vibe 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

PS_symbol_name — get the name of a glyph 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <pslib.h>

void PS_symbol_name(PSDoc *psdoc, unsigned char c, int fontid, char
*name, int size)

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so basically, this function goes and gets you the name of a glyph — and not just any glyph, specifically the one sitting at position c in the font's encoding vector. 🫶

where does that encoding vector come from? it's the font encoding, and you set it when you load the font with PS_findfont(). so like, if you care about what encoding you're working with, that's your moment 💅

now about fontid — it's optional, and you can just set it to zero. and if you do that? the current font gets used instead. easy. 😌

the name then gets copied into the memory area that name points to. and listen — not more than size bytes will be copied, so don't be out here handing it a buffer that's too smol, okay? it will not be dramatic about it, it'll just stop at size. 🍓

🌈 RETURN VALUE 🌈

(no return value documented here, bestie — it's giving void, and the original page keeps this section empty. moving on! 💀)

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• PS_findfont(3)
• PS_symbol(3)
• PS_symbol_width(3)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Uwe Steinmann ;uwe@steinmann.cx.

and that's the whole thing!! no cap, every detail accounted for 💜 this page came from the Library Functions Manual — it's PS_symbol_name(3), serving glyph-name realness. mwah, slay, go forth and look up your glyph names 🧚✨