On Sun 21 Nov 2021 at 17:29:37 (+0100), Paolo Prete wrote:
> 
> it would be useful to have a functions that checks if a font with a
> specific font-name is currently installed, so to have the produced score
> without visual errors that are not always easy to detect.

Would the list produced by this snippet help? I can't help you
parse the output as I'm not a scheme programmer.

> I searched a bit in the list of the scheme helper functions, and could find
> only:
> 
> ly:font-config-get-font-file font-name
> 
> However, in case the file is not found, it defaults to some font that (I
> suppose) is OS dependent, then I don't know  how to check if the searched
> font is really installed. Any idea about this?

Cheers,
David.
#(ly:font-config-display-fonts)

Reply via email to