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 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.