On Wed, Jul 1, 2026 at 10:09 AM [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > In Frescobaldi, go to Tools -> Directories -> Open LilyPond Data Directory and that should show you where to install the fonts. -- Knute Snortum
