Hi Urs, Abraham, Kieren, et al, I tried be interfaces described here: http://lilypondblog.org/2015/03/managing-alternative-fonts-with-lilypond/ It is a very nice idea, it works for me now and I am really excited how easy it is. The whole library approach is something I am looking forward to.
I realized some smaller issues when using it and I hope you are interested at least in some of them. Should I write them here or to you personally or enter as a github issue? This time here: 1. Font changes do not work when followed by a set-global-staff-size. This is probably hard to get around but it should be documented that the order matters. 2. The Beethoven stylesheet changes quite a lot of settings (including spacing). I tried all the fonts on a piano score: The other font changes work well and the output still looks good. But the Beethoven font breaks the layout because it requires more space. How about different stylesheets for Beethoven: One for a simple font/style change like for other fonts and one for the complete “Henle impression”? 3. If I have a font in my LP installation which I can use in a paper block (like described on fonts.openlilylib.org), I can not use it automatically with the library – I have to add a file in the stylesheets folder with that name, even though it may be empty. Could a fallback solution be added here, that one can use an installed font without a stylesheet? 4. The same, if there is no -brace font, the emmentaler brace font could be assumed without having to copy the emmentaler brace font to fontname-brace.otf. 5. Some thoughts/discussion might be needed for text font handling: Currently, the lilyJAZZText/Chord font is not used automatically even thouth it belongs to the jazz style. On the other hand, the Beethoven stylesheet also changes the text font to match the Henle style for instance. This comes back to the question (2): Is \useNotationFont selecting a font (including line thickness) or is it selecting a whole style to match Henle or Peters Edition or what ever style. I would suggest to separate these two aims. 6. The font install script could accept several destination paths to install fonts in a list of lilypond directories (like lilypond-2*/lilypond). That's something I could do, should I? 7. Am I right, that to get the fonts, each zip file has to be downloaded individually (except wget -r etc.)? How about providing one zip file containing all fonts to install? Thanks a lot for your work! Cheers, Joram _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
