On Sun 21 Nov 2021 at 19:12:33 (+0100), Paolo Prete wrote: > On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 6:37 PM David Wright wrote: > > 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? > > > Sorry, it doesn't help. > It just shows a long list of the available fonts. > Not what I was searching for...
Does that mean that your 'specific font-name' would not appear in that long list of available fonts, or that if it appeared, that still wouldn't be a sufficient indication that what you wanted from that font was actually available, ie some attribute might not be present. Cheers, David.