Comment #22 on issue 4014 by [email protected]: Patch: Add an expert
font tree interface
https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4014
It's orthogonal, but surely related. This patch is on allowing access to a
fine-grained font selection, e.g. to offer alternatives for fonts which
miss a bold italic or if you want small caps instead; Urs' work is about a
nice interface to setting fonts in the first place.
Since the internals are functional, what's missing here is exactly a nice
interface. My preferred solution would be exactly what Urs is researching:
Have the default font tree with the fonts shipped with LilyPond (+/- the
ongoing debate on sans and mono faces in the default repo, and allow for
understandable overrides like
\paper {
%% this should be the default, unless overridden by the user, to adapt to
the staff size set with #(set-global-staff-size)
\setFontScale = #(/ staff-height pt 20)
%% default bold is not bold enough
\setFont #'sans #'upright #'bold = "Futura Extra Black"
%% with optional scaling factor additional to global staff size scaling
(defaults to 1)
\setFont #'sans #'italic #'bold = #'("DejaVu Sans Bold Oblique" 1.129)
%% maybe define a new font-family symbol for a font used in lyrics
\setFont #'lyrics #'upright #'normal = "MyPrettyLyricsFont Condensed"
%% to be used with \override LyricText.font-family = #'lyrics
%% finally, sane defaults for overriding entire families, in this case
%% expanding to Book / Oblique / Bold / Bold Oblique for the ('upright
/ 'italic) x ('normal / 'bold)-pairs,
%% again with (optional) scaling
\setFont #'typewriter = #'("DejaVu Sans Mono" 1.129)
%% and, last but not least, a similar approach to music fonts
\setMusicFont #'music = "scorlatti"
\setMusicFont #'brace = "ross"
}
So yes, it's definitively going towards the same direction...
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