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TH luafindfont 1 "4 july 2025" "0.16" "luafindfont man page"
SH NAME
luafindfont
\- retrieve font informations of all installed system and TeX fonts.
SH SYNOPSIS
luafindfont [options] <fontname>
SH DESCRIPTION
This command lists informations about installed otf|ttf|ttc fonts,
installed by the system and by the TeX distribution
SH OPTIONS
IP -h,--help
obvious ... :-)
IP -V,--version
obvious ... :-)
IP -o,--otfinfo (default 0)
Use the program otfinfo for the font with the given number. The number
can be followed by an optional argument for otfinfo, e.g. -o 2f, list
all features for font no 2. Without an additional character, otfinfo is
called with -i
IP -i,--info (default 0)
List the given fontstyles (regular, bold, italic, bolditalic)
for the font with the given number
IP -I,--Info (default 0)
Siliar to i but uses the program mtxrun to get ll informations
including features and corresponding languages. List can be very long.
IP -l, --listonlynames
The output is a sorted long list of the symbilc names of the available fonts.
IP -L, --listonlyfiles
The same with filenames (without the path!)
IP -v,--verbose  Verbosity level
Give more informations, by now only -v works
IP -x,--xetex
test, if font is found by xetex via kpsewhich 0->no; 1->yes
IP -m,--max_string (default 90)
The maximum of the stringlength of the full path of fonts
IP -n,--no-symbolic-names  (altenatively --nosymbolicnames)
The fontlist contains only fontfile and fontpath
IP <fontname>
Can be a substring, e.g. times,  or a combination of two substrings
which act like a boolean and, e.g. "times & bold" (must be in quotes).
All strings are not case sensitive. Upper and lowercase can be mixed.
SH EXAMPLES

$ luafindfont libertinussans

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Lists all fonts which have names or part of like libertinussans

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bash-3.2$ ./luafindfont.lua libertinussans
 No.                   Fontname  Symbolic Name                                                                        Path
  1.    LibertinusSans-Bold.otf libertinussans  /usr/local/texlive/2022/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/libertinus-fonts/
  2.  LibertinusSans-Italic.otf libertinussans  /usr/local/texlive/2022/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/libertinus-fonts/
  3. LibertinusSans-Regular.otf libertinussans  /usr/local/texlive/2022/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/libertinus-fonts/

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The --otfinfo:

$ luafindfont -o 3 libertinussans

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This produces the following output:

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1.    LibertinusSans-Bold.otf libertinussans                          /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/libertinus-fonts/LibertinusSans-Bold.otf
2.    LibertinusSans-Bold.otf libertinussans  /usr/local/texlive/texmf-d...onts/opentype/public/libertinus-fonts/LibertinusSans-Bold.otf
3.  LibertinusSans-Italic.otf libertinussans                        /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/libertinus-fonts/LibertinusSans-Italic.otf
4.  LibertinusSans-Italic.otf libertinussans  /usr/local/texlive/texmf-d...ts/opentype/public/libertinus-fonts/LibertinusSans-Italic.otf
5. LibertinusSans-Regular.otf libertinussans                       /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/libertinus-fonts/LibertinusSans-Regular.otf
6. LibertinusSans-Regular.otf libertinussans  /usr/local/texlive/texmf-d...s/opentype/public/libertinus-fonts/LibertinusSans-Regular.otf

Running otfinfo on font no.3
Family:              Libertinus Sans
Subfamily:           Italic
Full name:           Libertinus Sans Italic
PostScript name:     LibertinusSans-Italic
Version:             Version 7.020;RELEASE
Unique ID:           1.000;QUE ;LibertinusSans-Italic
Designer:            Philipp H. Poll, Khaled Hosny
Manufacturer:        Caleb Maclennan
Vendor URL:          https://github.com/alerque/libertinus
Copyright:           Copyright © 2012-2020 The Libertinus Project Authors.
License URL:         https://scripts.sil.org/OFL
License Description: This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1
Vendor ID:           QUE

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The --no-symbolc-names:

$ luafindfont -n

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This produces the following output:

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bash-3.2$ luafindfont -n minion
Nr.                 Fontname                                   Path
  1.      MinionMath-Bold.otf  /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/MinionMath/
  2.   MinionMath-Regular.otf  /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/MinionMath/
  3.       MinionPro-Bold.otf   /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/MinionPro/
  4.     MinionPro-BoldCn.otf   /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/MinionPro/
  5.   MinionPro-BoldCnIt.otf   /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/MinionPro/
  6.     MinionPro-BoldIt.otf   /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/MinionPro/
  7.       MinionPro-Capt.otf   /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/MinionPro/
  8.       MinionPro-Disp.otf   /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/MinionPro/
  9.         MinionPro-It.otf   /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/MinionPro/
 10.     MinionPro-Medium.otf   /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/MinionPro/
 11.   MinionPro-MediumIt.otf   /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/MinionPro/
 12.    MinionPro-Regular.otf   /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/MinionPro/
 13.   MinionPro-Semibold.otf   /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/MinionPro/
 14. MinionPro-SemiboldIt.otf   /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/MinionPro/
 15.       MinionPro-Subh.otf   /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/MinionPro/
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SH See also
See luafindfont-doc.pdf for more details
SH BUGS
No known bugs.
SH AUTHOR
Herbert Voß ([email protected])
SH LICENSE
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this software
under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License, version 1.3.

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