Re: problems with ly:font-load

[Werner LEMBERG]

> for some reason I can't figure out how to make it work.  Would you
> have an example file to send me?

> I've tried
> #(ly:font-config-add-font 
> "./Documents/chemoelectric_-_Goudy_Bookletter_1.otf")
>
> or
> #(ly:font-config-add-directory "./Documents/")
>
> and then
>
> c-\markup{ \override #'(font-name . "Goudy Bookletter") text }
>
> But this doesn't work (more surprisingly, it doesn't display any
> message during the compilation??).

What message do you expect?  You get something if you add command line
option `-V' to lilypond.

> Before you ask, I have also removed the fontconfig cache before
> compiling the .ly file.

This is irrelevant.  Fonts added by the two new functions are not
cached in the cache file.


Let's assume that you have a subdirectory `f', and the font in this
directory is `pala.ttf'.  Try this (in file `f.ly'):

  #(ly:font-config-add-directory "./f")
  #(ly:font-config-display-fonts)

  \relative {
    c-\markup{ \override #'(font-name . "Palatino") "text" }
  }

with

  lilypond f.ly 2> f.log

Hmm, this doesn't work; it's not the right font.  Looking into the log
file, I see that this font is not called `Palatino' but `Palatino
Linotype'.  Fixing this, I get the desired result.


    Werner