Apple Newton Programmer’s Newton 2.0 (for Newton 2.0) - Manual (Page 310)

C H A P T E R 8
Text and Ink Input and Display
8-18 Using Text
The constants you can use in font specifications are shown in “Font Constants for
Packed Font Integer Specifications” (page 7-4) in Newton Programmer’s Reference.
The Font Frame 8
A font frame has the following format:
{family: familyName , face: faceNumber , size: pointSize }
For familyName , you can specify a symbol corresponding to one of the available
built-in fonts, which are shown in Table 8-3.
For faceNumber , you can specify a combination of the values shown in Table 8-4:
Table 8-3 Font family symbols
Symbol Font Family
'espy Espy (system) font
'geneva Geneva font
'newYork New York font
'handwriting Casual (handwriting) font
Table 8-4 Font style (face) values
Constant Value Font face
kFaceNormal 0x000 Normal font
kFaceBold 0x001 Bold font
kFaceItalic 0x002 Italic font
kFaceUnderline 0x004 Underline font
kFaceOutline 0x008 Outline font
kFaceSuperScript 0x080 Superscript font
kFaceSubscript 0x100 Subscript font