Re: Check if a font is currently installed

[Paolo Prete]

Sorry, it doesn't help.

It just shows a long list of the available fonts.

Not what I was searching for...

Best,

P

On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 6:37 PM David Wright <lilylis@lionunicorn.co.uk> 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?

Cheers,
David.