Re: Sans Font for Lilypond texts?

[Dominic Neumann]

Okay, that works good. I also added
\override StanzaNumber #'font-family = #'sans
for the stanza numbers to be in the same style.

But for consictency I´d like to have some other fonts also being Sans,
e.g. the font of the volta brackets. I couldn´t find something about
it in the manual.
I tried to add
\override VoltaText #'font-family = #'sans
to the above, but it didn´t help.

And is there a way to set the default font for markups to Sans?

Thanks,
Dominic

2007/9/14, Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden>:
> If all you want to do is to get a Sans font for lyrics, it's just to
> redefine the
> corresponding font property. To do this for all Lyrics contexts in your
> file,
> you can add
> \layout{
>   \context{
>     \Lyrics
>     \override LyricText #'font-family = #'sans
>   }
> }
> anywhere at the top level of the .ly file.
>
> On the other hand, if you want this specific file, you have to use the
> (make-pango-font-tree ...) command, which unfortunately needs to know
> the current staff size. One practical way to do it is to remove the line
> myStaffSize = #20
> from your .ly file and in your .lytex do
> \begin[staffsize=11]{lilypond}
> \paper{ myStaffSize = #11 }
> \include "test.ly"
> \end{lilypond}
>
> If you also want to be able to run the same .ly file standalone, then
> you could
> make a separate wrapper .ly file that just contains
> \paper{ myStaffSize = #20 }
> \include "test.ly"
>
>     /Mats
>
> Dominic Neumann wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to try to have all my lyrics typeset in a Sans font. Therefor
> > I´ve used a snippet from LSR
> > (http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=221):
> >
> > %%% BEGIN OF SNIPPET %%%
> > \paper {
> >   myStaffSize = #20
> >
> >   #(define fonts
> >     (make-pango-font-tree "Bitstream Vera Sans"
> >                           "Nimbus Sans"
> >                           "Luxi Mono"
> >      (/ myStaffSize 20)))
> > }
> > %%% END OF SNIPPET %%%
> >
> > I substituted Times New Roman with Bitstream Vera Sans what isn´t a
> > very good way, I think.
> > When producing lilypond-output directly with lilypond this works quite
> > good, but together with lilypond-book the layout is very bad: the
> > barlines and stems are smaller than they should be to suit the size of
> > the noteheads.
> >
> > I produced two simple examples to show what I did:
> >
> > %%%% BEGIN OF PURE LILYPOND-FILE%%%%
> > \version "2.10.29"
> >
> > \paper {
> >     myStaffSize = #20
> >
> >     #(define fonts
> >         (make-pango-font-tree "Bitstream Vera Sans"
> >                           "Nimbus Sans"
> >                           "Luxi Mono"
> >         (/ myStaffSize 20)))
> > }
> >
> > verseOne = \lyricmode {
> >     \set stanza = "1. "
> >     test bla blub -- ber
> >     test bla blub -- ber
> > }
> >
> > \score {
> >     {
> >         <<
> >         \relative c'' {
> >             \key d \major
> >             \time 2/4
> >             cis4 d | e fis
> >             cis4 d | e fis
> >             \bar "|."
> >         }
> >         \addlyrics { \verseOne }
> >         >>
> >     }
> > }
> >
> > %%%% ENDOF PURE LILYPOND-FILE%%%%
> >
> > %%%% BEGIN OF LYTEX-FILE %%%%
> > \documentclass{article}
> >
> > \begin{document}
> >
> > \lilypondfile[staffsize=11]{test.ly}
> >
> > \end{document}
> > %%%% END OF LYTEX-FILE %%%%
> >
> >
> > As you see, I cannot change the Staffsize and everything belonging to
> > it from within the LyTeX-file. How can I achieve this in another way?
> > I hope there is a more straight-forward way ...
> >
> > Thanks, Dominic
> >
> > PS: It seems that the \sans command only works within \markup
> > commands. So I cannot say "\sans" at the beginning of the document to
> > make everything appear in a Sans font.
> >
> >
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>         Royal Institute of Technology
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