you should install the font in such a way that fontconfig can find it, but how that works depends on your platform (windows, osx, linux) and which lilypond version you use.
I've added the list which should be able to help you further. On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 5:10 AM 15221328968 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Mr. Han Wen: > I am a university student in China and I am interested in making > music score by using computer. Recently I have found the lilypond which is > created by you and your fellow workers. The lilypond is fantastic! It is > easier to make some sheet music. However, I have found a problem. I have > read the mannual of lilypond but I haven't found the solution. So now I am > trying to make the stave with guqin lyric.(Guqin is a traditional Chinese > ancient instrument, and it uses different characters as its lyric->e.g. > ) I made a ttf font by myself to display these characters. So in lilypond > I use \addlyrics command, and type these characters in it. The problem is > when I converted the ly file into pdf file. These characters cannot be > displayed. I know that English and Chinese words can be displayed as lyric. > So I guess that maybe there is some configuration files where I can let the > lilypond find the ttf font made by myself. But I don't know how to do that. > That's the reason why I emailed you and I hope that you could > give me some suggestion about how to solve this problem if you are free. I > am looking forward to your reply. Thanks! > > > > >
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