Re: Finding out which fonts are available
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg112901] Re: Finding out which fonts are available
- From: Patrick Scheibe <pscheibe at trm.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 05:35:20 -0400 (EDT)
Hi,
maybe the list of FontSubstituions is at least a hint.
fonts = Union[(FontSubstitutions /.
Options[$FrontEnd, FontSubstitutions]) /. Rule[_, name_] :> name]
Column[Style["Hello World!", FontFamily -> #, 18] & /@ fonts]
On OSX I can use almost all installed fonts in Mathematica. With X in
Linux this seems a bit different. The fonts are very OS-dependend and I
even don't know whether in the case of Linux the underlying GUI (which
is QT afaik) handles the font stuff or whether Mathematica interacts
directly with the X-Server.
We had a discussion here concerning the micro-symbol which is not
directly connected to your problem but maybe of interest:
http://forums.wolfram.com/mathgroup/archive/2010/Feb/msg00332.html
http://forums.wolfram.com/mathgroup/archive/2010/Feb/msg00361.html
Cheers
Patrick
On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 05:45 -0400, Eric Rasmusen wrote:
> Is there a Mathematica command for finding out (a) what FontFamily
> possibilities and (b) what fonts, are available?
>