Re: Searching fonts?

[Alasdair McAndrew]

Thank you - but of course!   Now I feel even more stupid than usual.  

cheers,

Alasdair

On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 3:51 PM Aaron Hill <lilypond@hillvisions.com> wrote:

On 2022-07-13 10:35 pm, Alasdair McAndrew wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to find a suitable system font for use with some tablature
> I'm
> typesetting.  The command "lilypond -dshow-available-fonts" does indeed
> do
> exactly that, but there are so many fonts on my system that this
> command is
> not helpful on its own.  What I'd like is some way of searching the
> font
> list.  For example, I'd hope to write that font list to a file, which I
> could explore at leisure.
>
> I'm using Linux, and normally I can redirect the output of a command to
> a
> file, such as
>
> ls -l > list.txt
>
> But this doesn't work with the lilypond font command.  I'm quite
> mystified
> that the lilypond somehow ignores shell commands; at least in this
> instance.
>
> This same behaviour means I can't pipe the output of the font command
> to
> grep for searching.
>
> How can I search the list of available fonts?

The fonts are output via stderr.  You'll need to use 2>&1 to redirect
the stream.

lilypond -dshow-available-fonts 2>&1 | grep -i 'something'


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