BOOKSHE...LLFONTS(1)

📦 version 2026.0, in alpine 3.24

💖 BOOKSHE...LLFONTS(1) 💖

User Contributed Perl Documentation 🎀 bestie, this is the manual page for the bookshelf stuff, so let's get into it ✨

✨ NAME ✨

okay so the whole thing is bookshelf-listallfonts, and its job is to list all fonts LuaTeX knows about 🦋 and tag each one with its "interesting" features 💅

🧚 SYNOPSIS 🧚

bookshelf-listallfonts [-d] [-f FEATURES_FILE] [-x
EXCLUDED_PATTERNS_FILE]

bookshelf-listallfonts -h

bookshelf-listallfonts -v

bookshelf-listallfonts -m

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so this lists every font LuaTeX knows about and adds the "interesting" features to the listing 🔥 it's giving organized ✨

the script digs through the luaotfload databases and spits out a tab-separated stream with two fields: the font name plus the feature name, and the LuaTeX loading command 💜 this format is made for the mkfontsel.pl(1) command from the bookshelf package, so they're besties 🫶

we always include the default features, +clig;+liga;+tlig, no cap, they're non-negotiable 💅

highkey recommended: run

luaotfload-tool --update --force

before you run the script 🙈 trust me, future you will thank you 😭

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -d — prints debug info to the standard output 🔍
  • -f FEATURES_FILE — uses the patterns in the FEATURES_FILE instead of the default ones 🌈
  • -x EXCLUDED_PATTERNS_FILE — excludes the patterns in EXCLUDED_PATTERNS_FILE, which can be font paths, features, or combinations of them 🚫
  • -v — prints the version info ✨
  • -h — prints the usage info 💬
  • -m — prints the manual page 📖

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Boris Veytsman, 2024 💜

🌈 LICENSE 🌈

LPPL 1.3c 🦋

That's the whole page, bestie! 🫶 Source is perl v5.38.2, dated 2024-10-08, and it's all about BOOKSHE...LLFONTS(1) 🌸 stay iconic, and go run that luaotfload-tool update first 💖✨

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