Hello
I would not have mentioned this, except that I saw others making
the same mistake I made, and (like me) wondering what went wrong.
In the Notation manual for version 2.24, section 1.8.3 "Fonts", in
the last-but-one subsection "Entire document fonts", there is
this:
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LilyPond provides an alternative, more flexible interface to set
global font families. It allows you to change only specific font
family names, leaving others set to default values. The following
example has the same effect as the above make-pango-font-tree
example; the syntax for font family names is identical. If you do
not change the staff size from the default of 20pt, the line
containing the #:factor keyword is unnecessary.
\paper {
#(define fonts
(set-global-fonts
#:roman "Linux Libertine O"
#:sans "Nimbus Sans, Nimbus Sans L"
#:typewriter "DejaVu Sans Mono"
; unnecessary if the staff size is default
#:factor (/ staff-height pt 20)
))
}
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It took me a LONG time to realize that I should be keeping the
number 20 as literally 20, rather than somehow adjusting it
according to my chosen font size. I now see exactly why it is the
way it is (and how silly my misunderstanding was), but it would
have saved me some confusion if the doc said something like this:
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LilyPond provides an alternative, more flexible interface to set
global font families. It allows you to change only specific font
family names, leaving others set to default values. The following
example has the same effect as the above make-pango-font-tree
example; the syntax for font family names is identical. If you do
not change the staff size from the default of 20pt, the line
containing the #:factor keyword is unnecessary. (The number 20 in
that line is not meant to be changed; it is only there to restate
Lilypond’s default staff size. Using set-global-staff-size --
before the \paper block, not after -- is enough.)
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Thanks
David Rogers
