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 <[email protected]> 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' > > > -- Aaron Hill > -- Alasdair McAndrew (he/him) mob: 0432 854 858 https://numbersandshapes.net
