Fontshow – Cheat Sheet¶

This cheat sheet is automatically generated from the project documentation.

Do not edit this file manually.

fontshow preflight
fontshow dump-fonts
fontshow parse-inventory
fontshow validate-inventory
fontshow create-catalog

Flag	Description
`--help`	Show usage information
`--version`, `-V`	Show Fontshow version
`--verbose`, `-v`	Enable verbose output
`--quiet`, `-q`	Suppress non-essential output

Code	Meaning
`0`	Successful execution
`1`	Unrecoverable execution failure
`2`	CLI usage error (argument parsing)

pip install fontshow

git clone https://github.com/marco0560/Fontshow.git
cd Fontshow
python3 scripts/bootstrap_dev_environment.py

fontshow preflight
fontshow dump-fonts
fontshow parse-inventory
fontshow create-catalog

Preflight checks
  ↓
System font dump
  ↓
Inventory parsing, validation and enrichment
  ↓
Catalog creation (.tex generation)
  ↓
LuaLaTeX compilation (multi-pass)

python -m fontshow.cli.dump_fonts --no-loadability

python -m fontshow.cli.dump_fonts --include-fc-charset

Only RFC-compliant BCP-47 language tags are accepted
Deprecated or malformed tags cause a hard failure
No silent normalization is applied
Inventory generation stops on first violation

fontshow preflight

Code	Meaning
`0`	All required checks passed
`1`	One or more blocking checks failed

fontshow validate-inventory <inventory.json>

Code	Meaning
`0`	Validation completed successfully
`1`	Input file missing, invalid JSON, or validation failed