Hi, thanks for looking into this matter.
The glyphs are indeed not showing if the selected font is Edwin (thedefault), but if you select a font like Noto Sans, or DejaVu Sans for your text the characters will appear fine. It seems the “special characters” window uses the selected font for previews.
In my MuseScore 3.6.2 und MuseScore 4.3.2the font "Noto Sans" is connected with Hebrew only, so it doesn´t show any greek letter.
I checked "DejaVu Sans", and every Greek letter is shown up as You said. But "FreeSerif" shows most of them, as you said. thanks Gottfried Am 21.02.25 um 23:41 schrieb Roman Riabenko:
Hello, Noé. Thank you for looking into it! So, it is not a bug. I copy another user who reported having the same difficulty in guix-help mailing list. On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:26:39 +0100 Noé Lopez <[email protected]> wrote:The glyphs are indeed not showing if the selected font is Edwin (the default), but if you select a font like Noto Sans, or DejaVu Sans for your text the characters will appear fine. It seems the “special characters” window uses the selected font for previews.If I select FreeSerif instead of Edwin in the side panel before clicking the "Insert special characters" button, I achive the expected result later in the "Greek Extended" tab. With FreeSerif, most of the characters are displayed with only a handful of glyphs missing. FreeSerif is budled in the musescore package, so it is readily available. If I install the font-google-noto package and restart MuseScore, I can also select Noto fonts. I tried Noto Sans and Noto Serif. They appear to be missing the same glyphs as FreeSerif. So, it is not necessary to install Noto fonts. In Trisquel, the pre-selected font is FreeSerif instead of Edwin. There is no package for Edwin font in Trisquel. However, I downloaded the font from its git repository, installed it in Trisquel, and observed exactly the same result as in Guix, which is most of the glyphs missing in the "Greek Extended" tab. Somehow, it did not occur to me that I need to select a different font. Maybe, MuseScore could fall back to a different font when glyphs are missing. But it is not a bug with the MuseScore packaging in Guix. Roman
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