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Re: Font problem with fink compiled lilypond


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: Font problem with fink compiled lilypond
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:07:15 +0200 (CEST)

>> To be more precise: LilyPond only handles outline fonts.  A proper
>> filter to ensure that is still missing.  Reason is that the
>> FontConfig interface doesn't provide a means to implement it.
>> IIRC, there is already a bug tracker issue which covers this.
> 
> I don't see why pango or fontconfig would use this font as I doubt
> it has the char I'm looking for, may be I can try to remove the X11
> folder from the font search path.

This certainly helps.  The very problem is that you must manually
influence the order and/or the type of the fonts to find, otherwise
FontConfig selects an arbitrary font.  In particular, if you don't
inhibit non-outline fonts, FontConfig also returns bitmap fonts.


    Werner



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