From lilypond-user  Thu Aug 18 12:09:17 2005
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?fi=EB=E9_visu=EBlle?= <fiee.visuelle () gmx ! net>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:09:17 +0000
To: lilypond-user
Subject: Re: default font
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Am 2005-08-17 um 18:03 schrieb lfanele@gmail.com:

> actually the links helped me a lot. navigating around the .pdf was =20
> quite a pain in the a**, so i overlooked quite a lot of the crucial =20=

> infos.

But did you manage to set any font? How?

I found the hint that fontconfig sees from OSX's fonts only the first =20=

style. That should read: Only single-style TrueType fonts.
It doesn't seem possible to use TT fonts in suitcases, OTF fonts, PS =20
fonts without screen font, some other...

Working are only single-style TT/dfonts like Papyrus, Zapfino, Impact

If I try to use some multi-style font, I always get Verdana (WTF!? =20
see below).

I tried this approach: (It's not in the manual, I found it in some =20
source file or mail.)

\paper  {
   myStaffSize =3D #20

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

[one hour later]

I just dived into fontconfig configuration (http://fontconfig.org/=20
fontconfig-user.html)...

- Century Schoolbook is nowhere defined.

- Verdana is defined as fallback for sans-serif (but also serif fonts =20=

fall back to Verdana!)

- LilyPond's config sets Verdana as Alias for Helvetica and Arial. =20
WHY? Verdana is a screen font! (aliasing Arial and Helvetica would be =20=

ok)

- after creating my own .fonts.conf, my additional fonts folders =20
(e.g. TeX) are searched (i.e. a cache file is created), but the fonts =20=

are still never used: Does LilyPond really make use of fontconfig =20
settings?

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