On 19. Juli 2014 16:48:55 MESZ, tisimst <tisi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>So, Urs and I have been discussing how we might proceed to make
>alternate
>music fonts more publicly available and I thought I'd bring the
>discussion
>here since there are some decisions to be made regarding how users
>would
>experience the change.
>
>- Question 1: *Should the new syntax be something like this?* (where
>the
>music and piano-brace fonts are put at the first)
>
>\paper {
> #(define fonts
> (make-pango-font-tree
> *"lilyjazz"* ; music font
> *"gonville"* ; piano brace font
> "FreeSerif"
> "FreeSans"
> "Inconsolata"
> (/ staff-height pt 20)))
>}
>
An alternative that should be mentioned is having the music fonts last and
optional. This seems practical because it is probably much more regular to
change text fonts than music fonts.
>- Question 2: *Should we require the new fonts to be in the same folder
>as
>Emmentaler?* Most users won't know where this is and would more likely
>want
>to just install the fonts in the usual system fonts folder with all the
>other text fonts. Pango seems to know where this folder is, so it
>wouldn't
>need to be hard-coded like it currently is in "lily/font-config.cc".
>
This would be _very_ useful, not only because it's easier to install but also
because it wouldn't be pverwritten by a new LilyPond version.
Best
Urs
>Regards,
>Abraham
>
>
>
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