I have a Question related to this thread: I use the internal Lilypond \typewriter font for all titeling and markups How can I omit to type for every text \markup\typewriter again..?
Thanks! > Am 06.10.2021 um 10:08 schrieb Paul Hodges <[email protected]>: > > LilyPond has well-known ways to change the font within markup and for the > whole document. It can be harder to find the ways to change the font for all > of just a specific class of text, such as lyrics; but it can be done. Try: > > \lyricmode { > \override LyricText.font-name = #"Comic Sans MS" > Blah blah blah > ... > } > > (Obviously the font must be installed in your OS.) Now, Lilypond likes its > fonts to be in defined families (roman, sans, and typewriter), which you can > change globally, and the properties like bold and italic refer to these > families. When you change the font outside a family, the \bold and \italic > commands or overrides are no longer available; you have to select the exact > required version of the font by name, e.g.: > > \override LyricText.font-name = #"Comic Sans MS Italic" > > It is possible to get round this by defining your own font family in addition > to those provided within LilyPond, like this: > > \paper { > #(define fonts > (let ((n (set-global-fonts)) > (factor (/ staff-height pt 20))) > (add-pango-fonts n 'handwriting "Comic Sans MS" (* 1.1 factor)) > n)) > } > #(define-markup-command (handwriting layout props arg) (markup?) > (interpret-markup layout > (prepend-alist-chain 'font-family 'handwriting props) arg)) > > You can then set your newly-defined font-family to be used, after which the > usual facilities are still available, as in: > > \lyricmode { > \override LyricText.font-family = #'handwriting > Blah blah > \override LyricText.font-shape = #'italic > blah > \once \override LyricText.font-shape = #'normal > blah > ... > } > > I discovered this method in an archive post: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2019-02/msg00041.html , and > now know considerably more about fonts myself than I did before I wrote this! > > The override command can be put at the start of a particular set of lyrics if > you want only that verse or whatever to use the new font, or in a \layout > block to change the font for all lyrics. > > Paul > > > On 06/10/2021 04:49:06, "Виноградов Юрий" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Good. I understood you. Thanks. But if I can change the font type in the >> code section \header {title= \markup { \sans or \serif ...} }. But I can't >> figure out how to change the font specifically in the voice text code >> section \verse = \lyricmode {once upon a time}. Sorry for the inaccuracy of >> the code. I am grateful to you in advance.
