When I do s-left-mouse-click, and select "Change Buffer font...", I get a pretty display of sample text showing me what the various fonts look like. I'd like to reproduce similar behavior in a buffer.
I'd like to iterate over the values given by (font-family-list), print the name of the font-family, and a sample text with that family applied.
I got this far:
(dolist (curfam (font-family-list)) (print curfam (current-buffer)) ) which gives me the desired list of family names. Now I'm looking into customizing faces, and I'm starting to think what I want to do is really kinda tricky. Maybe that's why I only find what I'm looking for in a gtk box.
While I have some thoughts how to accomplish this, they seem pretty complicated -- creating a custom face for each family, setting those face properties, and setting the face for the current line somehow.
Here's my plan:
- For each family, create a face, with correct font-family.
- Insert the desired text.
- Apply the face to the desired text.
Here are my questions:
- Is this the right approach? Is there a simpler way?
- How do I apply the face to the desired text. Can I apply a face line by line, or do I have to make some kind of font lock mode?
