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List:       lilypond-devel
Subject:    Re: Planned font-related changes
From:       Jean Abou Samra <jean () abou-samra ! fr>
Date:       2023-04-19 22:39:21
Message-ID: 20cfedbc8203ab72e6b376da2f3cc91be5dd6dcf.camel () abou-samra ! fr
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Le samedi 15 avril 2023 à 01:16 +0200, Jean Abou Samra a écrit  :

> After this, I expect two more MRs:
> 
> - One to use a separate FcConfig for Emmentaler, to fix #6485,
> - One to also use Fontconfig for Open_type_fonts, making their selection the same \
> as Pango fonts, which should address #6486. It will make using custom music fonts \
> possible with `#(ly:font-config-add-directory "/path/to/fonts")` just like you can \
> already do with text fonts.


For the second point, there is now a proof of concept: \
[!1957](https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/1957). This needs a bit \
of love, and especially the handling of the case where the font can't be found is \
tricky; I would appreciate input there.


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