On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 3:54 AM, Urs Liska [via Lilypond] <
ml+s1069038n204099...@n5.nabble.com> wrote:
>
>
> Am 26.06.2017 um 11:43 schrieb Federico Bruni:
>
> >
> >
> > Il giorno dom 25 giu 2017 alle 20:49, Malte Meyn
> > <[hidden email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=204099&i=0>>
> ha scritto:
> >>
> >>
> >> Am 25.06.2017 um 20:45 schrieb Remy CLAVERIE:
> >>> I think that you have to donwload the fonts into the '.fonts'
> >>> directory of your home (beware to the 's' at the end of the name).
> >>> If it does'nt exist, you must create it. Then, run the 'fc-cache -v-
> >>> -f' and all the new fonts should be available for all the software,
> >>> including libreoffice.
> >>
> >> LilyPond looks for music fonts in it’s own font directory, something
> >> like XXX/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf, where XXX is
> >> /usr/local or ~ or something similar (Maybe it’s a bit different when
> >> installed via the package manager, perhaps
> >> /usr/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf).
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >>
> >
> > This is not the best advice, if Luca is using version 2.19.
> > As of version 2.19.12, there's no need to copy the fonts in lilypond
> > install directory. You place them once in your system-wide fonts
> > directory and then use the new syntax to make sure lilypond can find
> > the fonts.
>
> Ehm, are you really sure that's true? I was sure we didn't complete
> *that* step yet.
>
> If I'm not completely mistaken what Abraham developed for 2.19.12 was
> the ability to look up alternative fonts *in the LilyPond installation*
> (as opposed to having to rename the fonts which one would have to do
> before that).
> I was working on a patch to look for notation fonts in the system fonts
> but that didn't work out because of fontconfig's bad habit of always
> returning *something* if you request a font (well, it's not a bad habit
> in itself but for us it's a disaster because Arial may be an appropriate
> replacement font for Helvetica but definitely not for LilyBoulez).
>
Just wanted to jump in here quickly to re-affirm this. My experience tells
me that LP only looks for music fonts, as Urs suggested, in the specific
LilyPond installation directory and is only available to that installation
(if you happen to have multiple versions installed). There are some ways
around it and one thing I found to work decently, but not as reliably, is
to add the system font folder to LilyPond's include path. This does allow
you to install the fonts in the "normal" system font folder which then
allows you to access them across installations, but I seem to recall that
it was a bit buggy. It could have been a font-cache problem that made me
give up on it, but I don't recall exactly. Adding symbolic links on *nix
platforms also works well, but you still need to manually add the links for
each version's set of "fonts/[otf/svg]" folders. If we ever get around to
implementing SMuFL-compliance, this will need to be addressed properly.
Best,
Abraham
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