Strange font behaviour with Cygwin

[Patrick Hubers]

Hi,

First of all, thanks for a wonderful piece of software. I've been using 
LilyPond for about a year now and although I still cannot do some things 
as easy as I could with Finale (which I've been using for 10+ years), I 
think LilyPond is great and getting better with each new version!

However, I found some strange behaviour regarding fonts: when I compile 
a .ly file with the Cygwin version, some of the fonts (notably the bar 
numbers en lyrics) are missing and substituted with Courier. This 
happens with two separate Cygwin/LilyPond installations on different 
machines, both of which are running Windows 2000. The same file works 
perfectly on my Fedora Core 2 machine. However, if I specifically 
\override the fonts and specify, for example, to use "cmr08" for the bar 
numbers (which is, apparently, the same font that cannot be found 
normally), the font *can* be found and is present in the resulting .ps 
and .pdf output. Also note that all title fonts are present without 
having to \override them...

This has been happening at least since version 2.2.0, I'm currently 
running 2.2.5 on both Cygwin and Fedora.

I'm stumped, actually, and I'm wondering if anybody here can shed some 
light on this strange problem?

TIA.

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Patrick Hubers