[GRASS-dev] d.font -l: please sort alphabetically

[Glynn Clements]

Paul Kelly wrote:

> - Glynn mentioned that adding a d.font -L flag (capital L rather than 
> lower-case l) might be a good idea for that. It isn't entirely simple 
> though, but just needs some work. Do you think that would be enough? Or 
> should we change the search to sort on the short name - case-insensitively 
> perhaps? You could try that if you want and see if it gives you good 
> results on your system - just change the two references to "longname" in 
> that function to "name".
> 
> I'm not sure how much info the d.font -L flag should produce though - just 
> the short name and long name, or the path to the file, index within the 
> file etc.?

I've added R_font_info(), which behaves like R_font_list() except that
each string is the entire fontcap entry rather than just the name.

I've also added a -L switch to d.font. Currently, this dumps the raw
string (with fields separated by the | character); some formatting
would probably be desirable.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>