Re: LilyPond uses sans-serif font after 2.6 upgrade

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Graham Percival wrote:
> On 29-Jul-05, at 1:53 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
>
> > > After poking around a bit, I realized the problem -- since I'm 
> > > building  lilypond
> > > myself in my home directory, of course the sytem-wide fontconfig 
> > > won't  find
> > > the lilypond fonts.  I can point fontconfig at the fonts with  
> > > ~/.fontconf , but then
> > > I still need to update that file with the new version number.

> I don't know if this is good or bad...

this looks OK.

> To clarify further, I have fontconfig, pango, and whatnot[1] installed 
> via fink in /sw, owned
> by root.  I build lilypond as a user, and install it in 
> $HOME/usr/pkg/lilypond as a user.
> If the LilyPond binary tells itself where the fonts are, then something 
> is wrong.  If "make

what happens if you do

  lilypond -V <mumble>

Lily will print which font directories are added to the search path. Do 
they exist?

If you're running from the development directory directly (without doing 
make install), you need to set LILYPONDPREFIX to that directory.

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