Re: Choosing glyph variants

[Simon Albrecht]

On 29.08.2016 23:26, Erik Ronström wrote:
> 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.

As far as I know, there’s no way of accessing such glyph variants (or 
OpenType features) in LilyPond (we have a tracker issue for the OpenType 
part, IIRC).
But if it’s about easier maintenance or nicer code, you might do 
something like this:

%%%%%%%%%%
\version "2.19.47"
computer-modern = ##f
flqq = #(if computer-modern #{ \markup { \char #"#xF101" } #} "»")
\markup \flqq
%%%%%%%%%%

HTH, Simon