2015-04-28 9:23 GMT+02:00 Urs Liska <u...@openlilylib.org>: > Hi all, > > #(ly:font-config-get-font-file "Emmentaler-13") > > gives me the full path to the font file used by the "Emmentaler-13" font. If > I use a non-existent font name, say > #(ly:font-config-get-font-file "SomeFont") > I get a reference to emmentaler-11.otf, which is obviously used as fallback > font by fontconfig. > However, a Windows user reported that the same references "marlett.ttf" on > his system.
On my very old and outdated Ubuntu-system #(display (ly:font-config-get-font-file "emmentaler-13.otf")) in a lily-file returns: /home/harm/.fonts/wds052801.ttf which is surely not what I'd expect. Cheers, Harm Btw, none of the fallbacks in the file you sent privately works for me. > > I wanted to use this approach to determine if a requested font exists on the > user's system, but now I'm not sure anymore if that's a reliable approach. > Of course I can simply add the check for marlett.ttf, but I have the > impression that the returned fallback font isn't hard-coded but can vary > with the user's installation or font availability. > > So: > 1) > Does anyone know of another approach to determine if a given font is visible > to fontconfig? > (I can't check for the file name because this doesn't necessarily match the > font name) > > or > 2) > Is there a function to retrieve the "font name" from a given file name? > It would be a viable approach if I could compare the result of that request > with the original font name. > > TIA > Urs > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
