thanks mats,
actually the links helped me a lot. navigating around the .pdf was  
quite a pain in the a**, so i overlooked quite a lot of the crucial  
infos.
stephen

Am 17.08.2005 um 15:30 schrieb Mats Bengtsson:

> As described at the top of
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.6/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/ 
> Font-selection.html#Font-selection
> the default font for most text output in LilyPond is New Century
> Schoolbook. The same section also includes examples of how to modify
> the font. However, you may have to combine that information with
> that of http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.6/Documentation/user/out-www/ 
> lilypond/Entering-lyrics.html#Entering-lyrics
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.6/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/ 
> Layout-tunings-within-contexts.html#Layout-tunings-within-contexts
> and
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.6/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/ 
> Changing-context-default-settings.html#Changing-context-default- 
> settings
> (and maybe more from Chapter 9.)
>
> I deliberately don't give you a more specific answer, since the same
> principles apply to all settings you can do in LilyPond so you have to
> learn the general ideas sooner or later anyway.
>
>    /Mats
>
> lfanele@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> hi everybody!
>> what is the name of the default font for lilypond? i'm on os  
>> 10.4.2  and lilypond 2.6.3.
>> what would be the \layout command to globally set the font-size  
>> and - type for lyrics and mark-up (i've seen it in the manual but  
>> never  really got it to work).
>> as always thanks a lot for your help,
>> stephen
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