On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Valentin Villenave <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi Alexander, > > CC-ing to the bug list just in case. > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Alexander Kobel <[email protected]> wrote: > > why does LyricText #'font-series default to #'bold-narrow? > > > > First, it's counterintuitive to me to have a bold narrow font as the most > > important thing to read in a piece; it's just too black-ish. Condensed > seems > > fine for lyrics, but bold? > > Second, it's defined for nearly no font, in particular Century Schoolbook > L > > (the default of LilyPond) does not have it, IIUC, so regular is used > > instead. At least, this holds for the free typeface; according to > > Wikipedia, there are Century designs featuring a narrow variant, but > AFAICS > > all are commercial, and don't necessarily come as Century /Schoolbooks/. > > Third, even /if/ it were defined, it doesn't seem to work: I tried > "Nimbus > > Sans L", the only font I could find right now which actually offers a > bold > > condensed variant (with the same basename, i.e. [1]), and it falls back > to > > regular even there. Which came to no surprise after I saw > > > > # git grep bold-narrow > > Documentation/misc/ChangeLog-2.1: * scm/font.scm (paper20-font-vector): > add > > bold-narrow series (only > > Documentation/misc/ChangeLog-2.1: * scm/define-grobs.scm > > (all-grob-descriptions): use bold-narrow > > scm/define-grob-properties.scm: include @code{medium}, @code{bold}, > > @code{bold-narrow}, etc.") > > scm/define-grobs.scm: (font-series . bold-narrow) > > > > Is this symbol actually defined somewhere, and what am I missing? > > > > > > [1] This observation makes me wonder: is it possible to define different > > font basenames for several series of, say, the serif default font? Some > of > > my favourite fonts come in two flavours for normal spacing and condensed > > spacing, and my workaround - if I need both - is to define the condensed > one > > as the monospace font to have easy access on it. Which works, but is a > > complete abuse of the monospace entry. The Real Thing would be to say > > "GarmdITC Bk BT" is my default serif font, with default proportions, > > "GarmdITC BkCn BT" is the corresponding condensed font. Some typefaces > even > > need the same for bold, ultra-bold or something like this (e.g. Arial vs. > > Arial Black). And when 'font-series is switched, of course the > appropriate > > basename should be chosen. > > _______________________________________________ > bug-lilypond mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond > Greetings - I'm directing this primarily to bug-list folks. This was submitted over a week ago, and I see no action. Did I miss something? I don't understand fonts or typefaces or their parameters well, so I don't understand whether there is a bug or not. Perhaps this should be a feature request. I'm willing to add it to the tracker if someone can confirm that it is a bug or else determine that it should be a feature request. In either case, I'd like something more succinct. I appreciate your time and attention, Ralph
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