From lilypond-user  Thu Jun 02 10:00:51 2005
From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen () xs4all ! nl>
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 10:00:51 +0000
To: lilypond-user
Subject: Re: Default font
Message-Id: <429ED8D3.4090609 () xs4all ! nl>
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Basil Crow wrote:
> LilyPond 2.5.26 for Windows uses Verdana as the default font, but I want 
> to use the serif and sans serifs Minion Pro and Myriad Pro. I've been 
> getting away by hacking lines 355-356 of C:\Program 
> Files\LilyPond\usr\share\lilypond\2.5.26\font.scm to read:
> 
>    (add-pango-fonts n 'roman "Minion Pro" factor)
>    (add-pango-fonts n 'sans "Myriad Pro" factor)
> 
> But I don't want to have to do this. How can I declare the default roman 
> and sans fonts in a document?
> 

i've added the following to CVS,



\paper  {
   % change for other default global staff size.
   myStaffSize = #20

   #(define fonts
     (make-pango-font-tree "Times New Roman" "Helvetica" "Courier" (/ 
myStaffSize 20)))
}
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