Re: [ELPA] Add new 'show-font' package?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Protesilaos Stavrou <info@protesilaos.com>
> Cc: philipk@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2024 09:23:43 +0300
> 
> > x-family-fonts is defined in xfaces.c, which is not specific to X.
> > That function is supported by every font back-end that Emacs can use,
> > so it is platform-independent.
> 
> Very well! I am experimenting with it right now. It seems to do what I
> want. All I need is to figure out how to get/guess the name of a font
> based on the file name (ideally without depending on an external program
> that may not be installed on the user's end).

Why do you need that?  IME, users don't care about file names of the
fonts.