Re: ghostscript 9.56.1 in lilypond 2.23.14 no longer finds font Helvetica-Bold, but gs in 2.22.1 did

[Jeff Olson]

On 11/7/2022 11:58 PM, Jean Abou Samra wrote:

> Surprises
>       (2)-(4) happen because font-name is meant to be a
>       
>       sledgehammer that overrides all font selection logic. In
>       
>       particular, it makes \bold and \italic have no effect.
>       
>       You have to use font-style instead.
>       
>

On 11/8/2022 12:07 AM, Jean Abou Samra wrote:

> Sorry,
>       I was misremembering, font-style doesn't exist. 
>       The solution is more like: 
>       
>       \version "2.23.80" 
>       
>       \paper { 
>         fonts = 
>           #(set-global-fonts 
>             #:roman "C059" 
>             #:sans "Nimbus Sans" 
>             #:typewriter "Nimbus Mono PS") 
>       } 
>       
>       \markup \bold \sans "abcde" 
>       
>       
>       Nimbus Sans is the default for #:sans, but you could 
>       replace it with Nimbus Sans L. 
>       
>       Alternatively: 
>       
>       \version "2.23.80" 
>       
>       \markup \override #'(font-name . "Nimbus Sans Bold") "abcde"
>

Jean,

Thanks for the examples.

This is what I'm using so far at the end of my main ly file to get the fonts loaded:

\markup \override #'(font-name . "Nimbus Sans Bold") "ABCDEFG#b in /NimbusSans-Bold ~/Helvetica-Bold"
\markup \override #'(font-name . "C059 Bold") "ABCDEFG#b in /C059-Bold ~/Times-Bold"
\markup \override #'(font-name . "C059") "ABCDEFG#b in /C059-Roman ~/Times"
\markup \override #'(font-name . "Emmentaler-20") "ABCDEFG#b in Emmentaler-20

I'll translate it to hide the output, but I'll probably have to put it inside an explicit bookpart since it forces the title/composer like on the front page. 

Would be nice if lilypond had a way to load a resource into the postscript file without having to produce this extra output, or sledge hammer the bold/italic styles.

So does this sort of code have to be at the end because you can't un-break the damage from the sledge hammer?

Jeff

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