On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Carl Sorensen<c_soren...@byu.edu> wrote: > > On 7/10/09 5:32 PM, "Graham Percival" <gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 04:25:00PM -0700, Patrick McCarty wrote: >>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Graham >>> Percival<gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote: >>>> And by "could you produce instructions", Carl means "could you >>>> patch AU 3.2.2, since evidently the instructions there don't work >>>> any more". >>> >>> There are only instructions for UNIX. Is the process for installing >>> fonts on Mac different (I think Carl uses a Mac) ? >> >> OSX *is* UNIX. :) > > No, OSX is UNIX + "Apple's damn desktop manager TM", which hides UNIX very > nicely, but also has its own strange configuration stuff that I've never > spent the time to figure out. > >> >> You're fine, Patrick. Carl hasn't read AU 3.2.2, so I was making >> a cheeky comment. You may recall that a similar thing happened >> recently with the CG. ;) > > Yes, but this time I was reading the wiki that Patrick pointed me to, and I > had no idea of how to get from there to AU 3.2.2. > > And even having looked at all of AU 3.2.2, I have no idea how to get the > fonts installed so Inkscape can use them. > > I run lilypond from the command line daily, and I run Inkscape, but Inkscape > appears not to know about lilypond's fonts, so I still don't know how to get > a good SVG visible in Inkscape. > > So, although I appreciate cheeky comments as much as anybody, and maybe more > than most, this time I had a *real* question, and I still don't know how to > go about getting the answer. I guess I'll hit the Inkscape site and see if > I can figure something out.
This is what I do (on Linux): 1.) Move all of the LilyPond fonts (aybabtu, etc.) and the Century Schoolbook fonts to ~/.fonts 2.) Run "fc-cache -fv" 3.) Open Inkscape Then Inkscape will recognize the fonts. Does this work for you? -Patrick _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel