Write Direct Character FontOnly Class

The ooodev.format.writer.direct.char.font.FontOnly class gives you the same options as Writer’s Font Dialog, but without the dialog. as seen in Fig. 920.

Writer dialog Character font — Fig. 920 Writer dialog: Character font

Setting the font name and size

from ooodev.format.writer.direct.char.font import FontOnly
from ooodev.office.write import Write
from ooodev.gui import GUI
from ooodev.loader.lo import Lo

def main() -> int:
    with Lo.Loader(Lo.ConnectPipe()):
        doc = Write.create_doc()
        GUI.set_visible(doc=doc)
        Lo.delay(300)
        GUI.zoom(GUI.ZoomEnum.PAGE_WIDTH)
        cursor = Write.get_cursor(doc)
        font_style = FontOnly(name="Liberation Serif", size=20)
        Write.append_para(
            cursor=cursor, text="Hello World!", styles=[font_style]
        )
        Lo.delay(1_000)

        Lo.close_doc(doc)

    return 0

if __name__ == "__main__":
    SystemExit(main())

Running the above code will produce the following output in Fig. 921.

Writer dialog Character font 20pt — Fig. 921 Hello World! with font Liberation Serif 20pt

It can bee seen in Fig. 922 that the font size is 20pt.

Writer dialog Character font 20pt — Fig. 922 Writer dialog: Character font 20pt

Getting the font name and size from the document

Continuing from the code example above, we can get the font name and size from the document.

A paragraph cursor object is used to select the first paragraph in the document. The paragraph cursor is then used to get the font style.

# ... other code

para_cursor = Write.get_paragraph_cursor(cursor)
para_cursor.gotoPreviousParagraph(False)
para_cursor.gotoEndOfParagraph(True)

font_style = FontOnly.from_obj(para_cursor)

assert font_style.prop_name == "Liberation Serif"
assert font_style.prop_size.value == 20
para_cursor.gotoEnd(False)