---
name: "LaTeXML::Font"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "latexml"
version: "0.7.0-1"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/LaTeXML::Font"
---

# LaTeXML::Font(3pm)

representation of fonts, along with the specialization "LaTeXML::MathFont".

## NAME

`"LaTeXML::Font"` - representation of fonts, along with the specialization `"LaTeXML::MathFont"`.

## DESCRIPTION

This module defines Font objects. I'm not completely happy with the arrangement, or maybe just the use of it, so I'm not going to document extensively at this point.

`"LaTeXML::Font"` and `"LaTeXML::MathFont"` represent fonts  (the latter, fonts in math-mode, obviously) in LaTeXML.

The attributes are

```
 family : serif, sansserif, typewriter, caligraphic,
          fraktur, script
 series : medium, bold
 shape  : upright, italic, slanted, smallcaps
 size   : tiny, footnote, small, normal, large,
          Large, LARGE, huge, Huge
 color  : any named color, default is black
```

They are usually merged against the current font, attempting to mimic the, sometimes counter-intuitive, way that TeX does it,  particularly for math

### "LaTeXML::MathFont"

`"LaTeXML::MathFont"` supports `"$font-"`specialize($string);\> for computing a font reflecting how the specific `$string` would be printed when `$font` is active; This (attempts to) handle the curious ways that lower case greek often doesn't get a different font.  In particular, it recognizes the following classes of strings: single latin letter, single uppercase greek character, single lowercase greek character, digits, and others.

## AUTHOR

Bruce Miller \<bruce.miller@nist.gov\>

## COPYRIGHT

Public domain software, produced as part of work done by the United States Government & not subject to copyright in the US.