Re: what fonts I have in my systems?

[Tobias Hilbricht <hilbricht@linopus.de>]

Am Sa, den 18.09.2004 schrieb ciro um 05:15:
> Thank you to Tobias Hilbricht for the script.
> It is exactly what I was looking for.
> 
> I notice that the command "testfont"
> is not a command with the backslash "\"

testfont refers to the file testfont.tex in  the directory
texmf/doc/generic/fontinst/test/testfont.tex
it is not a command

> Is there any way to create one single file with
> a \sample page for each font installed in my computer?
> 
...echo \\\sample\\\bye)... in the script are commands you have to feed
into testfont.tex in order to get a font sample - see documentation. You
can use other test files and adapt the script accordingly.

> 
> Dear Ciro,
> I used the following shell skript, which was one and a half years ago
> on
> http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/fonts/fonts.phtml
> 
> fontdemo.sh
> 
> -------------
> 
> find `kpsewhich -expand-var='$TEXMFMAIN'`/fonts/tfm -name '*.tfm'
> -print
> | \
> sed 's@.*/@@; s@\.tfm$@@' | \
> xargs sh -c 'for i in "$@"; do (echo $i; echo \\\sample\\\bye) | \
> tex testfont; mv testfont.dvi $i.dvi; echo $i.dvi; done' sh
> 
> -------------

Yours sincerely

Tobias Hilbricht