Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

[Noeck]

Hi Simon,

ah, for me it does not work with the default (2.16.2) Lilypond coming
with Ubuntu (/usr/bin/lilypond). But with newer versions installed from
the website, which use different libraries.

Joram

Am 16.01.2014 13:57, schrieb Simon Bailey:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:
>> The problem (as Wernes said initially) is that you can't _ask_ LilyPond for
>> it. Depending on your OS and font setup it just does it or not ...
> 
> where do i start debugging? this obviously works for other people.
> 
> OS: Fedora 20
> lilypond: 2.17.97, installed using the tar.gz distributed file from
> the lilypond.org website.
> pango-1.36.1-1.fc20.x86_64
> freetype-2.5.0-4.fc20.x86_64
> fontconfig-2.11.0-1.fc20.x86_64
> 
> however, lilypond doesn't seem to be using these libraries on my
> system, as ldd shows:
> 
> <<<
> ldd ~/lilypond/usr/bin/lilypond
> 
> <...SNIP...>
> libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 =>
> /home/binabik/lilypond/usr/bin/../lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0
> (0x00007f020c67e000)
> libpango-1.0.so.0 =>
> /home/binabik/lilypond/usr/bin/../lib/libpango-1.0.so.0
> (0x00007f020c433000)
> libfreetype.so.6 =>
> /home/binabik/lilypond/usr/bin/../lib/libfreetype.so.6
> (0x00007f020c1af000)
> libfontconfig.so.1 =>
> /home/binabik/lilypond/usr/bin/../lib/libfontconfig.so.1
> (0x00007f020bf7b000)
> <...SNIP...>
> 
>>>>
> 
> running ldconfig -p | grep fontconfig:
> <<<
> libfontconfig.so.1 (libc6,x86-64) => /lib64/libfontconfig.so.1
> libfontconfig.so.1 (libc6) => /lib/libfontconfig.so.1
> libfontconfig.so (libc6,x86-64) => /lib64/libfontconfig.so
>>>>
> 
> Is this intentional? Would it change things if I were to use the
> system version of these libraries?
>