Protesilaos Stavrou <info@protesilaos.com> writes:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I am working on a new package called 'show-font'. It is a major mode for
> ".ttf" and ".otf" files (font files). It previews the current font, if
> available on the system, else it produces a helpful message that the
> font is not installed and thus cannot be previewed.
>
> These are early days. My immediate goals include the following:
>
> - Make it work on other operating systems beside GNU/Llinux.
> - Let users install a font file (OS-dependent).
> - Preview a font that is not installed on the system.
>
> I attach the patch I want to commit to elpa.git. Please let me know if
> you have any thoughts about this.
>
> All the best,
> Protesilaos (or simply "Prot")
>
> -- 
> Protesilaos Stavrou
> https://protesilaos.com
>
> From 6d0b5b4555c3ad80840c7260a276904c48fdf84e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> Message-ID: <6d0b5b4555c3ad80840c7260a276904c48fdf84e.1725441140.git.info@protesilaos.com>
> From: Protesilaos Stavrou <info@protesilaos.com>
> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 12:11:37 +0300
> Subject: [PATCH] * elpa-packages (show-font): Add new package
>
> ---
>  elpa-packages | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/elpa-packages b/elpa-packages
> index 6bac9fb..7434a5d 100644
> --- a/elpa-packages
> +++ b/elpa-packages
> @@ -680,6 +680,8 @@
>   (shell-command+	:url "https://git.sr.ht/~pkal/shell-command-plus")
>   (shell-quasiquote	:url nil)
>   (shen-mode		:url nil)
> + (show-font		:url "https://github.com/protesilaos/show-font"
> +  :readme "README.md")
>   (sisu-mode		:url nil)
>   (site-lisp             :url "https://git.sr.ht/~pkal/site-lisp")
>   (sketch-mode		:url "https://github.com/dalanicolai/sketch-mode")

A few comments on the code here: