Re: fonts on Mac 10.7.4

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On 2 sept. 2012, at 08:58, Curt <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi, I'm using Lilypond.app 2.16 on Mac 10.7.4.  (The change log says 10.7 is supported now.)

lilypond -dshow-available-fonts x

shows that I have Gloucester MT Extra Condensed available as a font for me.  Font Book shows it as being in True Type and Open Type format.

I try specifying it in my lilypond score file:

\override TimeSignature #'font-name = "Gloucester MT Extra Condensed"
\override TimeSignature #'font-size = #2

and it just comes at as some sort of plain sans serif looking thing.  I don't get any error messages or warnings.

Is there something extra I have to do to make lilypond see my fonts?  I saw the thing in the docs about "fondu" but that only looked relevant for the ".dfont" system fonts on os x.

Thanks,
Curt


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Hey Curt,

I was wracking my head over the same thing not too long ago on OS X.

LilyPond uses a library called fontconfig to do all font lookups.  What happens inside fontconfig is rather opaque to LilyPond - it just looks for a font and, if not found, replaces it with the generic sans serif of which you speak.  The best way to know how fontconfig searches for fonts is through their documentation :

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fontconfig

You can also email Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>, a member of both the LilyPond and fontconfig communities, who may have some insight on how to solve your problem.

Cheers,

MS