On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 12:40 PM Michael Hennebry <
henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Jun 2022, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 13 Jun 2022, George N. White III wrote:
> >
> >> Use fontconfig's fc-match to check system defaults (which may
> >> depend on the language)
> >>
> >> Fedora 35: fc-match monospace:en
> >> DejaVuSansMono.ttf: "DejaVu Sans Mono" "Regular"
> >
> > Looks like it might be the answer.
> > No time to try it right now.
>
> Possibly not.
> Changing pfn seems to have no effect.
> Setting gfn does have an effect.
> No spelling of DejaVu Sans Mono seems to have any effect,
> whether with 0, 2 or 3 escaped spaces.
> :set gfn=Helvectica does have an effect.
> :set pfn=Helvectica does have an effect.
> From print-to-file, Helvetica seems to be gedit's print font.
>
> BTW where is Helvetica stored?
>

on both Fedora 35 and 36:

% fc-match Helvetica:en
NimbusSans-Regular.otf: "Nimbus Sans" "Regular"


> It seems not to be under /usr/share/fonts .
> find /usr -name '*vetica*'
> doesn't.
>

You can't rely on legacy font names as there have been multiple "clones",
often supporting additional languages (hence the need to specify a
language).
The fontconfig system provides aliases for the legacy Adobe names.

-- 
George N. White III
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