> On Jun 29, 2026, at 3:24 PM, Tim's Bitstream <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Jun 26, 2026, at 9:34 AM, Knute Snortum <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jun 25, 2026 at 6:37 PM [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>> Can you post a MWE? (Minimal Working Example, where "minimal" means as >>>> small as possible and "working" means it compiles but shows the error.) >>> >>> Sorry for the slow reply, busy week. >>> >> >> Don't know why, but you have to set sans and typewriter to "lilyjazz-chord", >> >> %%% >> \version "2.26.0" >> >> \paper { >> #(set-paper-size "letter") >> indent = 0.0 >> ragged-last = ##f >> >> property-defaults.fonts.music = "lilyjazz" >> property-defaults.fonts.serif = "lilyjazz-text" >> property-defaults.fonts.sans = "lilyjazz-chord" %%% changed >> property-defaults.fonts.typewriter = "lilyjazz-chord" %%% changed >> } > > Unfortunately that doesn't work in my use case and I continue to have the > same error. Could I have a corrupted font table, possibly? But that wouldn't > explain there being no problem with 2.24. > > I should note that I am using the old fonts by Jean Pierre rather than the > newer ones by Abraham, because I like the way they look much better.
Upon further experimentation, the problematic font on my system seems to be “lilyjazz”, so it’s the music font itself. Commenting that out results in the file rendering, albeit with the default music font and the lilyjazz chord names and text. My next plan is to install the newer lilyjazz music fonts in hopes this will fix it; Frescobaldi and Lilypond don’t seem to be able to find fonts in the normal MacOS location, even though I have added that to $PATH. In the past I have had to install the various lilyjazz OTF files in the fonts directory within Lilypond. I’m running into a glitch in that I can’t find where Frescobaldi has installed Lilypond (I used the option within Frescobaldi > Preferences > Lilypond); does anyone know where that goes on MacOS? It does not come up searching in the Finder, but Apple goes to some lengths to hide many things from the hoi polloi so that we don’t eff things up… it’s an almost-but-not-quite POSIX system.
