Re: the new simplefonts stuff

[Mica Semrick <mica@silentumbrella.com>]

On Debian, you can try: 
fc-list : family
to list the family name. I was playing with this last night on my Debian Jessie system. 

The colon is a wildcard operator that will match all fonts on the system. I usually just grep the results for what I need.

You may want to refresh the font cache, with
fc-cache -fv

Best,
Mica

On September 4, 2014 12:15:39 AM PDT, Sandra Snan <sandra.snan@idiomdrottning.org> wrote:
>Thank you so much for your help, guys!
>
>On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 00:21:22 +0200, Wolfgang Schuster
><schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Am 03.09.2014 um 21:40 schrieb Joshua Krämer
><joshua.kraemer@gmail.com>:
>[...]
>> > The only name which works in ConTeXt is the family name (which can
>be
>> > seen in FontForge): "Swis721 BT", note the single "s".  However,
>this
>> > name is *not* shown in the mtxrun output.
>
>Something I realized as I was messing around waiting for fontforge to
>install is that, at least for fonts that come with *.afm metric files
>and *.pfb files,, you can look at them for some info. Looking at
>ubkl8a.afm I see:
>
>ellen% grep Name
>/usr/share/fonts/type1/texlive-fonts-recommended/ubkl8a.afm
>FontName URWBookmanL-Ligh
>FullName URW Bookman L Light
>FamilyName URW Bookman L
>
>The same info is similarly ascii-encoded in the pfb file. But when
>fontforge had installed (I needed it to look at the otf and ttf fonts
>in
>my example) I double checked and found the same info.
>
>> 
>> The family name is shown when you use the info option, e.g.
>> 
>> mtxrun --script font --list --info --all texgyrepagella*
>
>This was one of the first things I tried.
>
>ellen% mtxrun --script fonts  --info --list --all
>--pattern='bookmanlligh$'|grep name
>mtx-fonts       | fontname: urwbookmanlligh
>mtx-fonts       | fullname: urwbookmanlligh
>mtx-fonts       | filename: ubkl8a.afm
>
>Not really any of the same names even though it finds the same file.
>
>I don't have Macintosh but in Inkscape the name shows up as URW Bookman
>L and the font works there. I have Debian.
>
>ellen% context --version|grep version
>mtx-context     | current version: 2014.05.21 22:04
>
>I guess I'm missing something that will in hindsight look obvious...
>
>Sandra
>
>Example follows.
>
>% Uncomment one of the \definefontfamily lines.
>
>%% Just as a test for \definefontfamily, which works, text shows up in
>%% DejaVu Serif which is a ttf font.
>% \definefontfamily [five] [serif] [DejaVu Serif]
>
>%% This is what fontforge reports as the family name for
>%% Baskervaldx-Reg. It works for me, text shows up in Baskervaldx,
>which
>%% is an otf font.
>% \definefontfamily [five] [serif] [Baskervaldx]
>
>%% Fontforge called this the ``name for humans'', it didn't fly, text
>didn't show up:
>% \definefontfamily [five] [serif] [Baskervaldx Regular]
>
>%% This is straight out of the manual, works, text shows up bookman.
>%% Wanted this look, but with \definefontfamily.
>% \definetypeface [five] [rm] [serif] [bookman]
>
>%% None of these worked. Text doesn't show up at all.
>% \definefontfamily [five] [rm] [URW Bookman L Light]
>% \definefontfamily [five] [rm] [urwbookmanlligh]
>% \definefontfamily [five] [rm] [URWBookmanL-Ligh]
>% \definefontfamily [five] [rm] [URW Bookman L]
>
>\setupbodyfont [five]
>\starttext
>Hello, snow! Won't you go, and return in december?
>\stoptext
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