Re: Choosing glyph variants

[Erik Ronström]

I found another workaround: even though the glyph variants share the same 
codepoint in the font, the alternative glyphs are actually defined in the 
unicode ”Private Use Area”, so they also have codepoints of their own. So I 
just replaced all » characters in the lilypond source with the unicode 
character #xF101. The drawback is that this codepoint is specific to the font, 
so when editing the source files, these characters is not displayed 
”correctly”. And if I would like to change lyrics font for the score, the 
quotes won’t show up.

Erik



> 29 aug. 2016 kl. 22:02 skrev Erik Ronström <address@hidden>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I’m using Computer Modern in my score to match the surrounding text (set in 
> LaTeX). However, I discovered that the french quotes (guillemet) display 
> differently in the lyrics, compared to the TeX text (see attached image).
> 
> After digging into it, I found that the Computer Modern font contain 
> different glyph variants of the guillemet, encoded to the same codepoint in 
> the font. LaTeX chooses a specific variant because of the language context (I 
> think), while lilypond uses the default glyph.
> 
> So, the question is: Is it possible to choose glyph variants for text in 
> lilypond?
> 
> (Plan B would be to edit the font file in FontForge and replace the default 
> glyph with the variant I want, but I wouldn’t do that unless I really have 
> to…)
> 
> Erik
> 
> 
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