EKB This is a little proc to choose the first font in a list that is available on a system, similar to the options in CSS.
proc firstfont {fontlist default} {
set avail {}
foreach f [font families] {
lappend avail [string tolower $f]
}
foreach try $fontlist {
if {[lsearch $avail [string tolower $try]] != -1} {
return $try
}
}
return $default
}The "default" should be one of the font families that Tk guarantees it will supply a font for on any system (Courier, Times, and Helvetica). Here's an example:
set fontfam [firstfont {{Palatino Linotype} {Times New Roman}} \
Times]
font create body -family $fontfam -size 11
font create title -family $fontfam -size 16