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1. Yad Font

Display font selection dialog

Command

yad --font

Figure 1. Font dialog

Output in the terminal

Sans 10

If you were to select the Bold Style the output looks like

Sans Bold 10

1.1. --fontname=FONTNAME

Set the initial font.
FONTNAME is a string with font representation in the form "[FAMILY-LIST] [STYLE-OPTIONS] [SIZE]".

1.2. --preview=TEXT

Set text string for preview.

Command

yad --preview="This is the preview text"

Figure 2. Font dialog with a custom preview

1.3. --separate-output

Separate output of font description.

Command

yad --font --separate-output

The result output is

Sans|Bold Italic|10

1.4. --separator=STRING

Set output separator character.
Default separator is |.

1.5. --quoted-output

Output data will be in shell-style quotes.

Command

yad --font --quoted-output

Figure 3. Font dialog with qouted output

The result output is

'Sans Bold Italic 10'

1.6. Tips

To pass the three, (Family, Style, Size) separately, you need to do something like this:

Code

#!/bin/sh
yad --font | while read line; do
	# Might need to add more styles.
	STL=$(echo $line | grep -o "Bold\|Italic\|Oblique\|Condensed\|Medium")
	STYLE=$(echo $STL)
	SIZE=$(echo $line | awk '{print $NF}')

	if [ "$STYLE" = "" ]; then
		NAME=`echo $line | awk -F"$SIZE" '{print $1}'`
	else
		NAME=`echo $line | awk -F"$STYLE" '{print $1}'`
	fi

	echo $NAME
	echo $STYLE
	echo $SIZE

done