mfontset(3m17n)

✨ mfontset — bestie edition ✨

okay so this is mfontset from the m17n library, manual section 3m17n 🦋 if you're here you're probably deep in font-adjacent business and honestly? respect 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

mfontset -

fr fr the one-line description in the original is literally empty, no cap. just the name and a dash. iconic minimalism, I guess 🎀

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⭐ SYNOPSIS ⭐

MFontset * mfontset (char * name)

that's it, that's the whole call. one function, one argument, one pointer back at you 🫶

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So the tea is: mfontset() returns a pointer to a fontset object whose name is name. That's the whole vibe.

• if name is NULL? it hands you back a pointer to the default fontset instead. no name, no problem 😌

And here's the part that's lowkey clever: if no fontset exists with the name name, a new one gets created on the spot. main character energy, it just manifests ✨

When that new one gets created:

• if there's a data <fontset, name> sitting in the m17n database, the fontset's contents get initialized according to that data. cute, it comes pre-loaded 💅
• if no such data exists, the fontset contents are just left vacant. empty. a blank canvas. no thoughts, head empty 🙈

Also important, bestie:

the macro M17N_INIT() is what creates the default fontset. so like, that's the origin story of the default one.

And an application program can modify that default fontset before the first call of mframe(). so you've got a little window to customize before everything locks in — use it wisely, it's giving limited-time offer 🔥

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👑 RETURN VALUE 👑

this function returns a pointer to the found or newly created fontset. either way you get a pointer, you're winning 🌈

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🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

Copyright (C) 2001 Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA)

Copyright (C) 2001-2011 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html>.

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okay that's the whole page, you ate it, you understood it, you're basically a fontset scientist now 🧚💜

Version 1.8.4 — Mon Sep 25 2023 — and that's the m17n library signing off, mwah 💋 see you in the next man page bestie 🦋🌸