From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Protesilaos Stavrou <info@protesilaos.com>
Cc: philipk@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [ELPA] Add new 'show-font' package?
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2024 16:56:43 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <868qw428dg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ed5w7veu.fsf@protesilaos.com> (message from Protesilaos Stavrou on Fri, 06 Sep 2024 16:40:09 +0300)
> From: Protesilaos Stavrou <info@protesilaos.com>
> Cc: philipk@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2024 16:40:09 +0300
>
> > This seems to be in contradiction to what you said originally: that
> > you first want to handle installed fonts. A font that is not yet
> > installed will not appear in x-family-fonts, so you need something
> > else entirely.
>
> The "something else" is why I am relying on 'fc-list' and 'fc-scan'. I
> am keeping this dependency for the time being and will let users of
> other platforms tell me what the equivalent programs are on their
> system.
Does fc-list show fonts that are not installed?
> Indeed, it is hard to preview a font that is not installed on the
> system. For those cases, we show the relevant warning and then provide
> the means to install that file by copying to the OS-dependent path (I
> implemented this earlier).
On some systems, installation of a font does not boil down to copying
the font's file.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-09-06 13:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-09-04 9:21 [ELPA] Add new 'show-font' package? Protesilaos Stavrou
2024-09-05 10:18 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-09-05 10:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-06 5:35 ` Protesilaos Stavrou
2024-09-06 6:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-06 6:23 ` Protesilaos Stavrou
2024-09-06 7:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-06 7:23 ` Protesilaos Stavrou
2024-09-06 10:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-06 10:59 ` Protesilaos Stavrou
2024-09-06 11:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-06 13:40 ` Protesilaos Stavrou
2024-09-06 13:56 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-09-06 5:43 ` Protesilaos Stavrou
2024-09-06 6:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-06 6:29 ` Protesilaos Stavrou
2024-09-06 7:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-06 6:33 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-09-06 6:45 ` Protesilaos Stavrou
2024-09-06 7:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-06 7:31 ` Philip Kaludercic
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