From 4db3978a91d4c95c7ed22698d689baad90d17436 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kovid Goyal Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2024 13:55:34 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Add a note on how to see monospaced fonts on macOS --- docs/faq.rst | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/faq.rst b/docs/faq.rst index a9e9c9f1b..3fb0d2bf4 100644 --- a/docs/faq.rst +++ b/docs/faq.rst @@ -277,6 +277,9 @@ with:: fc-list : family spacing outline scalable | grep -e spacing=100 -e spacing=90 | grep -e outline=True | grep -e scalable=True +On macOS, you can open *Font Book* and look in the :guilabel:`Fixed width` +collection to see all monospaced fonts on your system. + Note that the spacing property is calculated by fontconfig based on actual glyph widths in the font. If for some reason fontconfig concludes your favorite monospace font does not have ``spacing=100`` you can override it by using the