I’d like to have a list of all the monospace fonts that fontconfig knows of,
which command do I have to use?
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Method 1
The command fc-list can list all available fonts according to their properties. In your case one needs to search for the spacing corresponding to mono, that would be 100, so fc-list :spacing=100. Simpler form fc-list :mono should probably work too.
Example:
$ fc-list :spacing=100 /usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n022003l.pfb: Nimbus Mono L:style=Regular /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/semaphor/smftt10.otf: Semafor:style=Mono /usr/share/fonts/TTF/luximbi.ttf: Luxi Mono:style=Bold Oblique /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/droid/DroidSansMono.pfb: Droid Sans Mono:style=Regular /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/bera/fvmbo8a.pfb: Bera Sans Mono:style=Bold Oblique /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono-BoldOblique.ttf: DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Bold Oblique /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/bera/fvmr8a.pfb: Bera Sans Mono:style=Regular /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/semaphor/smfptt10.otf: Semafor:style=PersonPillar-Mono /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/urw/courier/ucrr8a.pfb: Nimbus Mono L:style=Regular
A good documentation of fontconfig library (including font properties and their values selected in the fc-list) is available in the file /usr/share/doc/fontconfig-2.12.1/fontconfig-user.html (change version number to yours).
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