Re: Linux equivalent of Apple's fontbook

2018-07-18 Thread Johann Spies
Thanks for all the suggestions. I have looked at them all. At this stage it seems that gwaterfall and fonttable (which I discovered after my initial question) are more useful for me. Regards Johann -- Because experiencing your loyal love is better than life itself, my lips will praise you.

Re: Linux equivalent of Apple's fontbook

2018-07-17 Thread Curt
On 2018-07-17, deloptes wrote: > Johann Spies wrote: > >> On Debian, how do I see what all the characters in a LateX font like >> Linux Libertine O look like? > > I was using LyX and it shows the fonts and shapes (how chars would look > like) AFAIR. > Otherwise you may look for a good command to

Re: Linux equivalent of Apple's fontbook

2018-07-17 Thread deloptes
Johann Spies wrote: > On Debian, how do I see what all the characters in a LateX font like > Linux Libertine O look like? I was using LyX and it shows the fonts and shapes (how chars would look like) AFAIR. Otherwise you may look for a good command to print the font (in a ghostscript or pdf

Re: Linux equivalent of Apple's fontbook

2018-07-17 Thread David Wright
On Tue 17 Jul 2018 at 11:49:45 (+0200), Johann Spies wrote: > On Debian, how do I see what all the characters in a LateX font like > Linux Libertine O look like? > > Fontbook on OS X is a very good program to exactly see what a font looks like. gwaterfall was mentioned here only a week ago.

Re: Linux equivalent of Apple's fontbook

2018-07-17 Thread Kent West
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 4:49 AM, Johann Spies wrote: > On Debian, how do I see what all the characters in a LateX font like > Linux Libertine O look like? > > Fontbook on OS X is a very good program to exactly see what a font looks > like. > westk@westkent:~/TOBY/MAC-to-NAME$ aptitude search

Re: Linux equivalent of Apple's fontbook

2018-07-17 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 02:26:14PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 at 14:08, wrote: > > [fontsmpl] > > Thanks! I did not know about it. Glad to help :) > > Perhaps this is what you're looking for? > > Not exactly, but it helps

Re: Linux equivalent of Apple's fontbook

2018-07-17 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 at 14:08, wrote: > There's a TeX file whithin your texlive distribution (Debian's TeX comes as > texlive these days) called fontsmpl.tex: > > /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/fontsmpl.tex > > Its documentation is in > >

Re: Linux equivalent of Apple's fontbook

2018-07-17 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 11:49:45AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > On Debian, how do I see what all the characters in a LateX font like > Linux Libertine O look like? > > Fontbook on OS X is a very good program to exactly see what a font looks like.

Re: Linux equivalent of Apple's fontbook

2018-07-17 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello Johann, On 17/07/18 13:49, Johann Spies wrote: > On Debian, how do I see what all the characters in a LateX font like > Linux Libertine O look like? This looks as a LaTeX question rather then a Linux one. > > Fontbook on OS X is a very good program to exactly see what a font looks like.

Linux equivalent of Apple's fontbook

2018-07-17 Thread Johann Spies
On Debian, how do I see what all the characters in a LateX font like Linux Libertine O look like? Fontbook on OS X is a very good program to exactly see what a font looks like. Regards Johann -- Because experiencing your loyal love is better than life itself, my lips will praise you. (Psalm