Hi all,
since I could not find anything suitable to solve the issue described
below, I decided to write a little patch. Please have a look at
https://codereview.appspot.com/108700043
and tell me what you think about it.
[ BTW: This might or might not be entirely orthogonal to the music font
selection methods which are debated about currently, in the sense that
the feta font loader is hard-coded and built-in into
make-pango-font-tree and the proposed make-expert-font-tree. Sorry, I
did not follow those discussions in detail; but if you think that's a
good time to integrate music font selection as well, please go ahead. ]
I could not see a way to achieve what I need in user-level Scheme, since
add-font is not exposed publicly (and probably for a good reason). I'm
happy to take comments on functionality and coding style; I will write a
bit of documentation in addition to the regtest once (if?) you deem the
interface acceptable.
I hope goals and syntax are somewhat self-explaining; otherwise, feel
free to ask for further explanations. I barely added syntactic sugar
(except the default font scale 1.0), but I'm willing to reconsider the
input syntax to make-expert-font-tree if you have any better ideas.
However, a front-end to it should be much more easy to write, and this
is doable in user-level code.
Thanks in advance,
Alexander
On 07/11/2014 11:59 AM, Alexander Kobel wrote:
Dear all,
I like to use the Romande ADF font family [1] in one of my scores. I do
the usual rule-of-three with
\paper { ... (make-pango-font-tree
"Romande ADF No2 Std" "Romande ADF Std" "monospace"
(/ myStaffSize 20)) ... }
(If you wonder, No2 is condensed, and the non-condensed version, used in
the headers, is mapped to sans for easy access.)
However, here's the catch: Romande does offer a bold variant, but it
announces it as "DemiBold" instead of "Bold", according to fc-list. I
know that I can switch to the different font each time I need bold, but
that's an utter nuisance.
Is there any way to tell Lily how to choose a bold variant? Bonus points
if it only applies to a specific, say, the serif font. Or, <wishlist to
follow>, if it is possible to define a mapping similar to
myserif = { regular: # default
"Romande ADF No2 Std:style=Regular",
bold: # choose way of selecting bold
"Romande ADF No2 Std:style=DemiBold",
italic: # pretend I don't like Romande's italics
# and need to scale some other font to match
"Gentium:style=Italic:scaling=0.93",
bold-italic: # use small caps family instead
"Romande ADF Style Std:style=Regular" }
...
\paper { #(define fonts (myserif mysans mymono (/ myStaffSize 20)) }
Obviously, that's not Lily's syntax, but you get the point...
Thanks in advance,
Alexander
[1] http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/adffonts.html
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