Re: LilyPond 2.13.10 (OSX) Font Issues

[Tim McNamara]

Fonts are an issue with almost all Linux/Unix applications ported  
into OS X using the Aqua interface.  OpenOffice.org doesn't use fonts  
correctly either (somewhat of a bigger issue in an office suite);  
NeoOffice corrects this by putting a Java container around OO.o at  
the cost of performance and battery life on laptops.  Not being a  
programmer, I have no idea why this is.  I suspect the same issues  
are at work in LilyPond which just may not know that the OS X native  
fonts are stored at /System/Library/Fonts, ~/Library/FontCollections  
*and* ~/Library/Fonts for some reason.

It would be nice to be able to use the native OS X fonts and to have  
a "Real Book" style font (which does exist for OS X but is not  
accessible by LilyPond).  Unfortunately I have no idea how to make  
that sort of thing happen, so good luck to you with this!