Version 0.2.1 of package Show-Font has just been released in GNU ELPA. You can now find it in M-x list-packages RET.
Show-Font describes itself as: ============================== Show font features in a buffer ============================== More at https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/show-font.html ## Summary: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SHOW-FONT: PREVIEW FONTS Protesilaos Stavrou i...@protesilaos.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This manual, written by Protesilaos Stavrou, describes the customization options for the Emacs package called `show-font' (or `show-font.el'), and provides every other piece of information pertinent to it. The documentation furnished herein corresponds to stable version 0.2.0, released on 2025-01-25. Any reference to a newer feature which does not yet form part of the latest tagged commit, is explicitly marked as such. Current development target is 0.3.0-dev. ## Recent NEWS: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHANGE LOG OF SHOW-FONT Protesilaos Stavrou i...@protesilaos.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This document contains the release notes for each tagged commit on the project’s main git repository: <https://github.com/protesilaos/show-font>. The newest release is at the top. For further details, please consult the manual: <https://protesilaos.com/emacs/show-font>. Table of Contents ───────────────── 1. Version 0.2.0 on 2025-01-25 2. Version 0.1.0 on 2024-09-10 1 Version 0.2.0 on 2025-01-25 ═════════════════════════════ This version includes quality-of-life refinements. 1.1 Show fonts in a tabulated listing ───────────────────────────────────── The command `show-font-tabulated' will produce a listing of font families and their preview that uses the built-in tabulated interface. This interface is the same as the one used by `M-x list-packages'. Users can sort fonts by font family name (move point to the given column and type `S' or call `M-x tabulated-list-sort'). When `show-font-tabulated' is called with a prefix argument (`C-u' by default), it prompts for a string or regular expression. It then shows only the font families matching the given input. 1.2 Limit font listing using a regular expression ───────────────────────────────────────────────── The command `show-font-list' which we already had in version 0.1.0 is like the `show-font-tabulated', but uses a bespoke buffer where each font and its preview are shown one after the other. Now it also accepts an optional prefix argument to limit the list to only the matching fonts. 1.3 The `show-font-display-buffer-action-alist' controls buffer placement ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── The preview buffers we use will now conform with the value of the new user option `show-font-display-buffer-action-alist'. This is a more advanced feature, due to how `display-buffer' works, so you may want to check the video I did recently about controlling where buffers are displayed: <https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2024-02-08-emacs-window-rules-display-buffer-alist/>. The default value of `show-font-display-buffer-action-alist' will show the buffer at the bottom of the frame. 2 Version 0.1.0 on 2024-09-10 ═════════════════════════════ With `show-font' the user has the means to preview fonts inside of Emacs. This can be done in the following ways: • The command `show-font-select-preview' uses the minibuffer to prompt with completion for a font on the system. The selected font is then displayed in a bespoke buffer. • The command `show-font-list' produces a list with all the fonts available on the system. Each font on display is styled with its given character set. • The `show-font-mode' is a major mode that gets activated when the user visits a `.ttf' or `.otf' file. It will preview with the font, if it is installed on the system, else it will provide a helpful message and an option to install the font (NOTE 2024-09-10: this only works on Linux). The previews include a pangram, which is controlled by the user option `show-font-pangram'. The default value is a playful take on the more familiar “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” phrase. Users can select among a few presets, or define their own custom string. The function `show-font-pangram-p' is available for those who wish to experiment with writing their own pangrams (it is not actually limited to the Latin alphabet). The user option `show-font-character-sample' provides a more complete character set that is intended for use in full buffer previews (i.e. not in the list of fonts). It can be set to any string. The default value is a set of alphanumeric characters that are commonly used in programming: a good monospaced font should render all of them unambiguously. Finally, the following faces control the appearance of various … …
