Re: What music font packaging/selection experience do we want?

[Jean Abou Samra]




> Le 21 avr. 2023 à 14:48, Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk> a écrit :
> Just to add to bikeshed colours, please DON'T call it "stylesheet". Call it 
> the same name as the font, or something like that.
> If I've got a bunch of custom fonts I use, I just want to dump them in a 
> directory and forget about them. If they all store their metrics in a file 
> called "stylesheet.ily" they'll get thoroughly confused.


The idea is that rather than putting all the .otf file in one directory, you 
make one subdirectory per font. Cf. the bit about recursive searching.


> Indeed, it would be nice to be able to add a top-level command to lilypond 
> that adds this directory to the list of directories searched for fonts by 
> default. Dunno how easy that's for you to implement, but it would make life 
> damn simple for users :-)


That’s exactly what the linked MR does, the command being

#(ly:font-config-add-directory "/home/me/…/")