fontquery 1.4

Query a font in Fedora release

Fontquery

fontquery is a tool to query fonts in the certain Fedora release.

How to install

$ pip3 install fontquery

How to install from git

$ pip3 install --user build wheel
$ python3 -m build
$ pip3 install --user dist/fontquery*.whl

Usage

usage: fontquery [-h] [-r RELEASE] [-l LANG] [-m {fcmatch,fclist,json}] [-t {comps,langpacks,both,all}] [-v]
                 [args ...]

Query fonts

positional arguments:
  args                  Queries (default: None)

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -r RELEASE, --release RELEASE
                        Release number (default: rawhide)
  -l LANG, --lang LANG  Language list to dump fonts data into JSON (default: None)
  -m {fcmatch,fclist,json}, --mode {fcmatch,fclist,json}
                        Action to perform for query (default: fcmatch)
  -t {minimal,extra,all}, --target {minimal,extra,all}
                        Query fonts from (default: minimal)
  -v, --verbose         Show more detailed logs (default: 0)

To query sans-serif for Hindi on Fedora 36,

$ fontquery -r 36 sans-serif:lang=hi
Lohit-Devanagari.ttf: "Lohit Devanagari" "Regular"

To generate JSON from langpacks installed environment:

$ fontquery -m json -t langpacks
...

To generate html table:

$ fontquery -m json -t langpacks | fq2html -o langpacks.html -

To check difference between local and reference:

$ fontquery-diff -r 39 -R text

For developers

Before committing something into git repository, you may want to do:

$ git config core.hooksPath hooks

to make sure our hook scripts works.