Such shortcuts are mainly useful for you if you have the font installed. Such lists are on your system. If you use pdfTeX, take a look into pdftex.map. You could find it by
kpsewhich pdftex.map
at the command prompt, or use any search feature of your system. It shows the font mappings.
There are ways you could get concrete information you need. I would list all installed fonts by
updmap-sys --listmaps
On my system ist lists nearly 200 lines of font maps, such as
Map fourier.map
Map kpfonts.map
Map libertine.map
Map lm.map
...
so I know which fonts are installed. I posted this earlier here.
To see the respective shortcuts, I would look into those files. Since I can find them using kpsewhich, I type
gedit `kpsewhich kpfonts.map`
using gedit or any other editor. So I find the shortcuts inside: jkpmnc etc.
Often I take the quick way and look into the sty file to hopefully find the correct shortcut. Again, I use kpsewhich like
gedit `kpsewhich aurical.sty`
Remark, for an explanation and an outlook: kpsewhich works also on Windows. gedit is a GNOME editor, mainly used on Linux, such as Debian and Ubuntu. The backticks in the command lines evaluate the command and give the output to gedit. Because of command line features, piping, grepping, replacing with regexp and many more I like to use TeX on Linux. Here, I look for font names on my complete system, filtering for Charter fonts, cutting the output a bit by sed, the stream editor:
updmap-sys --listmaps | sed 's/^.* \(.*\)$/\1/' | xargs kpsewhich | xargs grep -i charter | sed 's/^.*:\(.*\)<.*$/\1/' | sed 's/<.*$//'
which returns:
bchb8y CharterBT-Bold "TeXnANSIEncoding ReEncodeFont"
bchbo8y CharterBT-Bold "0.194 SlantFont TeXnANSIEncoding ReEncodeFont"
bchbi8y CharterBT-BoldItalic "TeXnANSIEncoding ReEncodeFont"
bchr8y CharterBT-Roman "TeXnANSIEncoding ReEncodeFont"
bchro8y CharterBT-Roman "0.194 SlantFont TeXnANSIEncoding ReEncodeFont"
bchri8y CharterBT-Italic "TeXnANSIEncoding ReEncodeFont"
bchrc8a CharterBT-SmallCap
bchbc8a CharterBT-BoldSmallCap
bchr8v VnBitstreamCharter " T5Encoding ReEncodeFont "
bchri8v VnCharterBT-Italic " T5Encoding ReEncodeFont "
bchro8v VnBitstreamCharter " 0.194 SlantFont T5Encoding ReEncodeFont "
bchb8v VnCharterBT-Bold " T5Encoding ReEncodeFont "
bchbi8v VnCharterBT-BoldItalic " T5Encoding ReEncodeFont "
bchbo8v VnCharterBT-Bold " 0.194 SlantFont T5Encoding ReEncodeFont "
bchb8r CharterBT-Bold " TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont "
bchbi8r CharterBT-BoldItalic " TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont "
bchbo8r CharterBT-Bold " .167 SlantFont TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont "
bchr8r CharterBT-Roman " TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont "
bchri8r CharterBT-Italic " TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont "
bchro8r CharterBT-Roman " .167 SlantFont TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont "
If there would be a list on the internet, I guess it could be found by using a search engine and typing in 5 or more already known shorthands all together.
It depends of course on your level of understanding of your TeX system. So, if you do not know the details of the ways TeX deals with fonts (for example if you don't know what a .fd file or a .map file is) then the simplest, I guess, is:
- consult the doc of the package allowing to use your font,
- and if the doc does not contain the answer, try the following:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{my_package_for_the_font}
% \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
% if it is a Sans font, or perhaps rather the package had
% a "default" option
\begin{document}
the name of my font is \familydefault
\end{document}
LaTeX your document and the result should show up.
Now for the more complete answer if wxyz was the printed result, you need to find on your system ot1wxyz.fd or t1wxyz.fd which will give you all the gory details about how the files are truly named on your system (the tfm files).
Best Answer
The names can be found in
fontname.pdf(texdoc fontnameon TeX Live systems); on page 4 there is the list of "suppliers" and GUST Typefoundry appears asq. Since TeX Gyre Termes, for instance, is a clone of Times, its family name isqtm.agAvant GardebkBookmanzcZapf ChancerycrCourierhvHelveticaplPalatinocsCentury Schoolbook (the Adobe one is NewCentury Schoolbook,pnc)tmTimesThere are listings by supplier in the appendix, but GUST Typefoundry doesn't (still) appear.