On Tue 27 Jan 2026 at 11:20:00 (-0500), Gabriel Ellsworth wrote: > This is my first time using LilyPond to typeset lyrics in Chinese. I am > running version 2.25.32 on macOS via Frescobaldi. > > If I open Apple’s “Font Book” app, I see many options for Traditional > Chinese (screenshot): > [image: image.png] > > I have read 8.3 Fonts (LilyPond Notation Reference) > <https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/fonts> and > understand that I can run lilypond -dshow-available-fonts in Terminal to > see all the typefaces that are available to LilyPond. But I don’t know how > to search within the very long list that I get from Terminal other than to > Command-F for each of the 29 typefaces shown in Font Book. > > > 1. Is there a fast/easy way to filter for (1) Chinese typefaces that (2) > are available to LilyPond?
The image you attached (which, unlike some, I shall not send back to the list!), appears to show graphic panels with captions underneath. If those captions are text, you should be able to copy the lot in one drag and paste them into Terminal, or an editor buffer. You can then search for multiple strings with a command like: lilypond -dshow-available-fonts 2>&1 | grep -B2 -i -e Baoli -e BiauKai -e … | less I've specified -i to allow for different capitalisations, and piped to less because you (hopefully) might get more hits. Alternatively, grep -B2 -i -f filename will search for all the strings listed in the file 'filename', one string per line. That's usually a better strategy when your terminal's commandline doesn't have any recall buffer. Cheers, David.
