Re: Persian fonts

2009-03-27 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 07:15:21PM -0700, Kees van den Doel wrote: There are still plenty of problems, for example the Persian accidentals don't align well when you change the font size (apart from that they don't look that nice). Hopefully they will be integrated in 2.13 at some point.

Persian fonts

2009-03-26 Thread Kees van den Doel
Hi all, I updated the persian.ly init file with some more Persian keys, instructions for setting up the fonts for the Mac (thank you Patrick) and some extended examples. http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~kvdoel/tmp/persian.zip There are still plenty of problems, for example the Persian accidentals don't

Re: Persian fonts

2009-03-18 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/17 patrick duka patrickd...@gmail.com: Hi Kees, I hope the developers will add the Persian accidentals in the next Lilypond version, even though it seems obvious that they will, I plan to post a message in that sense (I don't know where to make this kind of request yet). I think this

Re: Persian fonts

2009-03-17 Thread patrick duka
, March 15, 2009 3:12 pm Subject: Re: Persian fonts To: Hans Aberg hab...@math.su.se Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Ok, after trying both ways separately, 1: putting Pertout's 2 fonts files in MacintoshHD/Library/fonts: it works fine 2: When I put them in the same folder as the persian.ly

Re: Persian fonts

2009-03-16 Thread patrick duka
In fact it's very simple (only my lack of experience in handling fonts files made it difficult): at first when lilypond's console was showing error messages, it said clearly waht paths it was going through to locate the .ly file, there were several paths, so i guess you can just put a copy of it

Re: Persian fonts

2009-03-15 Thread Hans Aberg
On 15 Mar 2009, at 06:09, patrick duka wrote: Kees Van den doel worked on creating the persian.ly file recently, and he explained how to install the Init file for persian music fonts: To use download the PostScript Type 1 Microtonal Font from Andrián Pertout

Re: Persian fonts

2009-03-15 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/15 Hans Aberg hab...@math.su.se: Just download the TrueType fonts and install them using the Font Book as Computer (system wide) fonts. It worked on Mac OS X 10.5.x for PPC. In recent LilyPond versions, you don't even have to install the font; you can just put it in the same directory as

Re: Persian fonts

2009-03-15 Thread patrick duka
on the files:... Now i guess something's wrong with the persian fonts, maybe the location i put them in; but the error message doesn't make it clear for me as where I have messed up. I see there are many pango files inLilypond's code source: Lilypond 2.12.2/lily/pango-font-scheme.cc Lilypond 2.12.2

Re: Persian fonts

2009-03-15 Thread Hans Aberg
[Please keep the cc to the mailing list, so that others can follow.] On 15 Mar 2009, at 21:04, patrick duka wrote: Hi everybody, need help with the Persian sori and koron glyphs. Here is a detailed description of what I tried I am on macosx10.4.11 I went to Anrian Pertout's website,

Re: Persian fonts

2009-03-15 Thread patrick duka
I think I followed your advice, but I don't know whether the font file is wrong or if I've done smthng else wrong, or whether it's as you say that Perhaps LilyPond must have ~/Library/Fonts added to the search path. I'll try to find this search path. 2009/3/15 Hans Aberg hab...@math.su.se

Re: Persian fonts

2009-03-15 Thread patrick duka
ok, going for it 2009/3/15 Hans Aberg hab...@math.su.se [Please keep the cc to the mailing list, so that others can follow.] On 15 Mar 2009, at 21:04, patrick duka wrote: Hi everybody, need help with the Persian sori and koron glyphs. Here is a detailed description of what I tried I am

Re: Persian fonts

2009-03-15 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/15 patrick duka patrickd...@gmail.com: you can just put it in the same directory as your source file, and add  #(ly:font-config-add-directory ./)  before loading your font. I'm really sorry but this is not clear for a newbie like me, where is my source file? I meant your .ly file

Re: Persian fonts

2009-03-15 Thread patrick duka
It works! Yooh!!It was just a matter of placing Pertout's 2 font files in the right folder... Thanks a lot Hans, Valentin for your precious help, and Kees and Benham and everyone! Patrick. 2009/3/15 patrick duka patrickd...@gmail.com ok, going for it 2009/3/15 Hans Aberg

Re: Persian fonts

2009-03-15 Thread patrick duka
Ok, after trying both ways separately, 1: putting Pertout's 2 fonts files in MacintoshHD/Library/fonts: it works fine 2: When I put them in the same folder as the persian.ly file (in Lilypond's ly folder), I get the same incorrect glyphs as mentionned earlier. Thanks again. 2009/3/15 patrick

Re: Persian fonts

2009-03-15 Thread Hans Aberg
On 15 Mar 2009, at 22:04, Valentin Villenave wrote: you can just put it in the same directory as your source file, and add #(ly:font-config-add-directory ./) before loading your font. I'm really sorry but this is not clear for a newbie like me, where is my source file? I meant your

Persian fonts

2009-03-14 Thread patrick duka
Hi, I'm new to Lilypond and Opensource. Kees Van den doel worked on creating the persian.ly file recently, and he explained how to install the Init file for persian music fonts: To use download the PostScript Type 1 Microtonal Font from Andrián Pertout (