Finding fonts in code (c code that is)

[Stephen Gibson]

   http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/
Has some neat information on installing Microsoft's TrueType core fonts
on linux and suggests   

    xlsfonts 

to verify what fonts are available.

[ just incase this is useful ;-)  ]

Steve.

> 
> Is there a standard way of finding all fonts on a linux box? I have a
> request in my program for a named font (for example Helvetica), and I want
> to try to find a font file to match that request.
> 
> How do applications like the Gimp build those font selection dialogs?