Re: OS X fonts

[Tim McNamara]

On Aug 28, 2010, at 4:41 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

> Am 2010-08-28 um 23:02 schrieb Tim McNamara:
>
> > Using
> >
> >     lilypond -dshow-available-fonts x
> >
> > was suggested as a way to look at the fonts Lilypond has  
> > available.  Doing this from the command line on my Mac (10.4.11  
> > FWIW), I got:
> >
> > [tim ~]$ lilypond -dshow-available-fonts x
> > GNU LilyPond 2.12.3
> > ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path:
> > ERROR: Unable to find file "ice-9/boot-9.scm" in load path
>
> I remember this error, but not the reason...
> On my current 10.5.8 the command works flawlessly (even if slow,  
> because it must scan several trees).
>
> > And is Lilypond also not locating anything else in /Applications/ 
> > LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/share/guile/*  ?
>
> LilyPond uses fontconfig; you can setup your font directories in  
> ~/.fonts.conf; mine looks this:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
> <fontconfig>
> <cache>~/.fonts.cache-1</cache>
>
> <dir>/System/Library/Fonts</dir>
> <dir>/Library/Fonts</dir>
> <dir>~/Library/Fonts</dir>
> <dir>~/FontExplorer\ X/Font\ Library</dir>
> <dir>/Library/Application\ Support/Adobe/Fonts</dir>
> <dir>~/Library/texmf/tex</dir>
> </fontconfig>

Thank you.  Looking in ~/ I find the directory .fontconfig and the  
file .fonts.cache-1 as well as the file .lilypond-fonts.cache-2

.fonts.conf is absent in my system as far as I can find.  Is there  
any need to include .lilypond-fonts.cache-2 in this file?

Thanks!

Tim