+\wxheading{Constants}
+
+The possible values for the \arg{family} parameter of \helpref{wxFont
+constructor}{wxfontctor} are (the old names are for compatibility only):
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+enum wxFontFamily
+{
+ wxFONTFAMILY_DEFAULT = wxDEFAULT,
+ wxFONTFAMILY_DECORATIVE = wxDECORATIVE,
+ wxFONTFAMILY_ROMAN = wxROMAN,
+ wxFONTFAMILY_SCRIPT = wxSCRIPT,
+ wxFONTFAMILY_SWISS = wxSWISS,
+ wxFONTFAMILY_MODERN = wxMODERN,
+ wxFONTFAMILY_TELETYPE = wxTELETYPE,
+ wxFONTFAMILY_MAX
+};
+\end{verbatim}
+
+The possible values for the \arg{weight} parameter are (the old names
+are for compatibility only):
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+enum wxFontWeight
+{
+ wxFONTWEIGHT_NORMAL = wxNORMAL,
+ wxFONTWEIGHT_LIGHT = wxLIGHT,
+ wxFONTWEIGHT_BOLD = wxBOLD,
+ wxFONTWEIGHT_MAX
+};
+\end{verbatim}
+
+The font flags which can be used during the font creation are:
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+enum
+{
+ // no special flags: font with default weight/slant/anti-aliasing
+ wxFONTFLAG_DEFAULT = 0,
+
+ // slant flags (default: no slant)
+ wxFONTFLAG_ITALIC = 1 << 0,
+ wxFONTFLAG_SLANT = 1 << 1,
+
+ // weight flags (default: medium)
+ wxFONTFLAG_LIGHT = 1 << 2,
+ wxFONTFLAG_BOLD = 1 << 3,
+
+ // anti-aliasing flag: force on or off (default: the current system default)
+ wxFONTFLAG_ANTIALIASED = 1 << 4,
+ wxFONTFLAG_NOT_ANTIALIASED = 1 << 5,
+
+ // underlined/strikethrough flags (default: no lines)
+ wxFONTFLAG_UNDERLINED = 1 << 6,
+ wxFONTFLAG_STRIKETHROUGH = 1 << 7,
+};
+\end{verbatim}
+
+The known font encodings are:
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+enum wxFontEncoding
+{
+ wxFONTENCODING_SYSTEM = -1, // system default
+ wxFONTENCODING_DEFAULT, // current default encoding
+
+ // ISO8859 standard defines a number of single-byte charsets
+ wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_1, // West European (Latin1)
+ wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_2, // Central and East European (Latin2)
+ wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_3, // Esperanto (Latin3)
+ wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_4, // Baltic (old) (Latin4)
+ wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_5, // Cyrillic
+ wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_6, // Arabic
+ wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_7, // Greek
+ wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_8, // Hebrew
+ wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_9, // Turkish (Latin5)
+ wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_10, // Variation of Latin4 (Latin6)
+ wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_11, // Thai
+ wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_12, // doesn't exist currently, but put it
+ // here anyhow to make all ISO8859
+ // consecutive numbers
+ wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_13, // Baltic (Latin7)
+ wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_14, // Latin8
+ wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_15, // Latin9 (a.k.a. Latin0, includes euro)
+ wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_MAX,
+
+ // Cyrillic charset soup (see http://czyborra.com/charsets/cyrillic.html)
+ wxFONTENCODING_KOI8, // we don't support any of KOI8 variants
+ wxFONTENCODING_ALTERNATIVE, // same as MS-DOS CP866
+ wxFONTENCODING_BULGARIAN, // used under Linux in Bulgaria
+
+ // what would we do without Microsoft? They have their own encodings
+ // for DOS
+ wxFONTENCODING_CP437, // original MS-DOS codepage
+ wxFONTENCODING_CP850, // CP437 merged with Latin1
+ wxFONTENCODING_CP852, // CP437 merged with Latin2
+ wxFONTENCODING_CP855, // another cyrillic encoding
+ wxFONTENCODING_CP866, // and another one
+ // and for Windows
+ wxFONTENCODING_CP874, // WinThai
+ wxFONTENCODING_CP1250, // WinLatin2
+ wxFONTENCODING_CP1251, // WinCyrillic
+ wxFONTENCODING_CP1252, // WinLatin1
+ wxFONTENCODING_CP1253, // WinGreek (8859-7)
+ wxFONTENCODING_CP1254, // WinTurkish
+ wxFONTENCODING_CP1255, // WinHebrew
+ wxFONTENCODING_CP1256, // WinArabic
+ wxFONTENCODING_CP1257, // WinBaltic (same as Latin 7)
+ wxFONTENCODING_CP12_MAX,
+
+ wxFONTENCODING_UTF7, // UTF-7 Unicode encoding
+ wxFONTENCODING_UTF8, // UTF-8 Unicode encoding
+
+ wxFONTENCODING_UNICODE, // Unicode - currently used only by
+ // wxEncodingConverter class
+
+ wxFONTENCODING_MAX
+};
+\end{verbatim}
+