On Sunday, September 4, 2016, Federico Bruni-2 [via Lilypond] < [email protected]> wrote:
> Il giorno mar 26 lug 2016 alle 18:27, tisimst > <[hidden email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=194200&i=0>> > ha scritto: > > Just for the record (and maybe this is the wrong place to record it), > > I > > thought I'd clarify some confusion in the thread referred to in the > > above > > issue. > > > > > 1. There is no "Feta" font. It's called "Emmentaler", but it consists > > of > > two sub-sets of glyphs: "Feta" (the classical notation glyphs) and > > "Parmesan" (the ancient notation glyphs). > > > > 2. Since Emmentaler comes in 8 different optical sizes, the commands > > to > > load them only require the root name "emmentaler" to load them all. > > > > 3. The fonts are located, not in the system's font directory(s), but > > in the > > program's own font folder, typically > > "[LilyPondDir]/usr/share/lilypond/current/fonts/". > > > > 4. To use Emmentaler (or whichever is the main font, if using an > > alternative) for a grob that supports the font-interface, it can be > > set via > > the 'font-family property, but the value isn't 'emmentaler, it's 'feta > > (sigh). It's a shorter name, which is nice, but it isn't _technically_ > > accurate. > > > > 5. In a \markup, the fonts can be accessed directly with the real font > > name, like "emmentaler-23". > > > > 6. In the NR, section A.8 is entitled "The Feta font", but the > > opening line > > starts out with "The following symbols are available in the Emmentaler > > font..." > > > > In other words, there's some inconsistency floating around. > > We discussed this almost an year ago :) > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-11/msg00594.html > > Finally I'll take action and add an issue on the tracker: > https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/4966/ > Thank you, Federico, for adding this! Best, Abraham -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/About-issue-4931-make-deadNote-work-with-different-fonts-tp193110p194202.html Sent from the Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
