On 27 January 2011 19:17, James Samir Ismail <j...@tenable.biz> wrote: > > Xavier, > > I suspected that it could be a font problem, but as I'm new to > Lilypond, can you give me a snippet for changing the font? I'll try > to figure out a font that I know supports Arabic well, and test it > again.
\markup { \override #'(font-name . "new font") "العربية" } where "new font" is the name of the font to use. To have a list of all available fonts on the operating system, type lilypond -dshow-available-fonts x in a terminal. But better is to read the "font" section of the notation reference manual. NR 1.8.3 Fonts http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/fonts.html Cheers, Xavier -- Xavier Scheuer <x.sche...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond