Dear all,
I often use a condensed font for lyrics, for obvious reasons. It's "ITC
Garamond by Bitstream" in its condensed variant (for those who have it:
it's in the CorelDRAW font collection).
The issue of global font change aside, that's how I can use the TrueType
version of the font:
#(define fonts (make-pango-font-tree
"GarmdITC BkCn BT"
"sans-serif" "monospace" 20)
Now, I (more or less accidentally) installed the Type1 version of the
same font on another machine, but I'm not able to find out how to select
the condensed variant.
After some guessing, I found out the following: The TTF claims to come
in two font families, "GarmdITC Bk BT" and "GarmdITC BkCn BT", for
normal and condensed. The Type1 advertises itself (somewhat more
precisely) as just the "ITC Garamond" family, with the distinction of
condensed as a style.
So `lilypond -dshow-available-fonts x` (and, for what it's woth,
`fc-list`) show the TTF as
family GarmdITC Bk BT
GarmdITC Bk BT:style=Book
family GarmdITC Bk BT
GarmdITC Bk BT:style=Bold
...
family GarmdITC BkCn BT
GarmdITC BkCn BT:style=Book
family GarmdITC BkCn BT
GarmdITC BkCn BT:style=Bold
...
while the Type1 is announced as
family ITC Garamond
ITC Garamond:style=Book
family ITC Garamond
ITC Garamond:style=Bold
...
family ITC Garamond
ITC Garamond:style=Book Condensed
family ITC Garamond
ITC Garamond:style=Bold Condensed
...
`fc-match 'ITC Garamond:Book:Condensed'` or `fc-match 'ITC
Garamond:style=Book Condensed'` return (as I expected)
Garamdnc.pfb: "ITC Garamond" "Book Condensed"
However, the same strings as arguments of (make-pango-font-tree) don't
work. I can select "ITC Garamond", but every "add-on" does not change
the style.
The obvious workaround is to use the TTFs, but somehow I feel that the
naming scheme used in the Type1s is more elegant. Maybe the clumsy
declaration in the TTFs is a technical restriction?
Long story short: Does anybody know a way to convince
(make-pango-font-tree) to select a certain font variant or style from
the family, or to find out how the string is interpreted? And, in
particular: why doesn't it match fc-match's match?
Thanks in advance,
Alexander
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