Hello, all!
There have been a number of discussions about this recently --
including several threads I started myself (and to which am still
waiting for a response)... ;-)
In any case, I've been doing some digging around, and I just wanted
to pass on some of my findings, in case it helps anyone else. [BTW:
I'm sorry if this doesn't help anyone not working on Mac OS X 10.4.x
or Lilypond 2.9.x, which is the basis for all these findings -- maybe
something will be of some help on other OSes and other Lilypond
versions...]
1. Fonts may be selected directly in a \markup using
\markup { \override #'(font-name . "FAMILY NAME") "my font-ed
markup" }
where "FAMILY NAME" is the name found by opening the font in
FontBook, showing Font Info (Apple-I), and then looking at the
"Family" line. No need to build a pango-tree, etc.!!
2. So far, I have determined that .dfont and Font Suitcase formats
work fine, and that in particular ***Windows TrueType fonts (.ttf) DO
NOT***. [If you have a .ttf font that you absolutely must have in
your Lilypond output, download FontForge and generate a Font Suitcase
or .dfont version from the TTF original.] Unfortunately, many of the
fonts included with Mac OS X (by Apple themselves) are .ttf files,
and so these are, as far as I can tell, unavailable to Lilypond
without extra effort.
I haven't yet figured out how to force the selection of a particular
weight within a family, but if I do, I'll be sure to advise the list.
Hope this helps someone else!
Kieren.
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