Reviewers: ,
Message:
I don't know if this qualifies for a "Fixed" label on Issue 519, but let
me know what you think.
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=519
Thanks.
- Mark
Description:
Issue 519: Warn about cross-platform font inconsistencies.
Please review this at https://codereview.appspot.com/10819043/
Affected files:
M Documentation/notation/text.itely
Index: Documentation/notation/text.itely
diff --git a/Documentation/notation/text.itely
b/Documentation/notation/text.itely
index
89c82c7d217f4b4cc936ed19681c25c0b6c921f5..0799f61259ed5ba30cabf5e2fcfd54f54b3021f8
100644
--- a/Documentation/notation/text.itely
+++ b/Documentation/notation/text.itely
@@ -1402,6 +1402,14 @@ Three families of text fonts are made available: the
@emph{roman}
@emph{sans} font and the monospaced @emph{typewriter} font -- these
last two families are determined by the Pango installation.
+@warning {There are no default fonts associated with the @emph{sans}
+and @emph{typewriter} font-families. An input file that specifies
+either of these can lead to different output on different computers.
+To ensure consistent output among multiple platforms, fonts must be
+specified by name, and those fonts must be available on any system
+that processes the file. See @ref{Single entry fonts} and
+@ref{Entire document fonts}.}
+
Each family may include different shapes and series. The following
example demonstrates the ability to select alternate families, shapes,
series and sizes. The value supplied to @code{font-size} is the
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