On Sat, 10 Sep 2022 13:44:45 -0700 Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersm...@oracle.com> wrote:
[snip] > As for why the man pages don't explain the difference, like most > things there is no real reason beyond "because no one has yet added an > explanation" - this is a nearly 30 year old distinction, and many of > those involved back then aren't here to ask now, but they probably > knew the difference themselves and didn't think about explaining it > to others. > > But since you've pointed it out, we can try to do better now: > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/fslsfonts/-/merge_requests/8/diffs > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xlsfonts/-/merge_requests/5/diffs [snip] > There is no xft-ls-fonts - the rough equivalent there would be > fc-list, since xft bridges the fontconfig font system into X11, as > somewhat described in: > https://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/xorg-docs/fonts/fonts.html Thanks for all that. I think it helps to clarify things - a lot more than I expected TBH :) Cheers, Dave
