mtx-fonts(1)

📦 version 2026.0, in alpine 3.24

💅 mtx-fonts — ConTeXt Font Database Management

okay bestie, welcome to mtx-fonts, the ConTeXt font database manager, straight out of the mtx-fonts(1) manual. this is the little script that keeps track of every font your ConTeXt setup has ever met, and it's genuinely kind of iconic once you get to know it 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

mtxrun --script fonts [ OPTIONS ...  ] [ FILENAMES ]

that's it. that's the whole entrance. you call it through mtxrun --script fonts, throw some options and/or filenames at it, and let it cook 🔥

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

ConTeXt Font Database Management. periodt. this is the tool that deals with your font database — generating it, listing what's in it, poking at its guts, all of it. no cap, if fonts are involved in ConTeXt, this script is lowkey the main character 💖

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

  • --convert — saves an open type font in a raw table 💅
  • --unpack — saves a tma file in a more readable format, because sometimes you just want to see her ✨
  • --reload — generates a new font database. bestie, if you're not 100% sure, use --force when in doubt. truly the "have you tried turning it off and on again" of fonts 😭
  • --reload — and with --simple, it generates luatex-fonts-names.lua. heads up though: not for context! (the manpage is very much yelling that at you, respect it 🫶)
  • --list --name — lists installed fonts, filtered by name. pair it with [--pattern] 🍓
  • --list --spec — lists installed fonts, filtered by spec. pair it with [--filter] 💜
  • --list --file — lists installed fonts, filtered by file. pair it with [--pattern] 🌈
  • --pattern=str — filters files using a pattern
  • --filter=list — key-value pairs, for when you want to get specific
  • --all — shows all found instances (works combined with other flags) 👑
  • --info — gives you more details, because you deserve the full lore
  • --trackers=list — enables trackers 🔍
  • --statistics — some info about the database. numbers! vibes! ✨
  • --names — uses name instead of unicodes
  • --cache=str — uses a specific cache, either otl or otf
  • --pattern=str — filters files using a pattern (yes, she's listed twice in the manual — she's just that popular 💅)
  • --coverage=str — character list
ngl, that double --reload and double --pattern=str are literally just how the manual has them. not me editing the sacred text 🙈

💌 AUTHOR 💌

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and that's the whole page, no crumbs left behind 🧚 okay so this was version 1.21, dated 01-01-2026 — she's fresh, she's festive, she's the mtx-fonts(1) manual and she ate 💖✨🫶

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