Re: Music fonts in local directory

[Urs Liska]

Am 10.07.2017 um 23:34 schrieb David Bellows:
>> Its relative path is "../share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf"
>> Linux package maintainers may organize things differently, though.
> So it sounds like, for now, at least, if I want to do this I would be
> better off providing installation instructions for the fonts for the
> various platforms (OSX, Windows, and Linux). Ugh. While I know where
> to put the fonts in Linux, I'm not sure if I could come up with
> general enough instructions for all Linux users and then Mac and
> Windows users -- who knows?
>
> Or does there already exist a set of instructions for this for all platforms?f

Not that I know of.
But in your case I would suggest not to provide installation
*instructions* but installation *scripts* for the different platforms.

Best
Urs

>
> Dave
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 2:02 PM, Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:
>> [CCing back to the list]
>>
>>
>> Am 10.07.2017 um 22:02 schrieb David Bellows:
>>>> If your software is able to determine the lilypond installation directory 
>>>> it could create the appropriate symlinks.
>>> Is there a Lilypond command for that?
>> No.
>>
>>> I'm using OS system commands to
>>> call Lilypond from inside my software so I could get that information
>>> if that's the case.
>> Well, that's what I would do. However, there are different ways how
>> LilyPond is installed, depending on OS and method. With binary releases
>> you can find the font directory from the executable. Its relative path
>> is "../share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf"
>> Linux package maintainers may organize things differently, though.
>>
>>>> Apart from that I think I recall someone wrote you can add the font 
>>>> directory to LilyPond's include path.
>>> That would work nicely as well. Hopefully someone can give me a hint
>>> about that as well.
>> Hm, I just tested adding the folder to LilyPond's include path where the
>> fonts are, and that did *not* work.
>> So it seems my recollection was wrong ...
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Urs
>>
>>> On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 9:53 PM, Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Am 10. Juli 2017 04:29:35 MESZ schrieb David Bellows <address@hidden>:
>>>>> I fear I already know the answer to this question but I thought I'd try
>>>>> anyway.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a project that generates music and sheet music using Lilypond.
>>>>> I want to allow the user to use any music font they want (the free
>>>>> music fonts). But I want to keep things as simple as possible. So I
>>>>> don't want for them to have to figure out how to install the music
>>>>> fonts into the standard places that Lilypond looks for them.
>>>>>
>>>>> Instead I'd love for them to be able to download my software and keep
>>>>> those music fonts in a subdirectory of my project and for Lilypond to
>>>>> be able to find them.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've experimented a lot with this and cannot get anything to work. And
>>>>> based on what I've read I don't think it is possible, but I'm hoping
>>>>> this isn't the case. I really don't want to have to deal with making
>>>>> people install these fonts when it feels like I can just include them
>>>>> with my project.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Dave Bellows
>>>> If your software is able to determine the lilypond installation directory 
>>>> it could create the appropriate symlinks.
>>>>
>>>> Apart from that I think I recall someone wrote you can add the font 
>>>> directory to LilyPond's include path.
>>>>
>>>> HTH
>>>> Urs
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