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Old 06-19-2012, 01:53 PM   #262
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Originally Posted by adamselene View Post
Turns out it will display more than 3 fonts, as long as they all start with A-G. In one case I actually got it to display part of an I name (ITC Berkeley) after the builtin H names, so it seems to be indexing them, but has a very strange idea about what to display.
Alt fonts' names are displayed in one horizontal line in Aa window, so width of this line is a limiter for number of displayed fonts. I guess, if you'll give one-letter names (A to G) to your fonts' typefaces, you'll see more than 3-4 alt fonts in the Aa window.

Also, fonts' names are displayed in alphabetical order, aren't they? Does your case with ITC Berkeley contradicts with this observation?

All fonts in the /mnt/us/fonts are available in system after refreshing Fontconfig cache (i.e. ;fc-cache), so fonts with typface name starting from I-Z are "hidden" (i.e. displayed out of bounds of Aa window) only because of alphabetical order of displaying and not so wide single horizontal list "line".

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Overall, this strikes me as a very crufty and possibly unintentional hack. But hey, it works. Mostly.
This way isn't hack at all. It's a "stock feature". I mean, it was intentionally implemented by Amazon programmers, I've just discovered it.
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