Re: Coexisting 2.8 with 2.4

[Karl Hammar]

address@hidden:
> Quoting Fairchild <address@hidden>:
...
> > 3)  How to get the 2.4 default font in 2.8?
> 
> In 2.4, the only(!?) available fonts were the TeX fonts. In 2.8, you 
> have access to all the fonts that are available
> in your other windows programs. However, I'm not sure how to install 
> the TeX fonts, so that
> they are found via the "Pango library" that LilyPond now uses.
> The question has popped up a number of times on the mailing list, but 
> it seems that nobody has managed to do it, even though I'm sure
> it's fully possible if you know how it works.
...

The most common TeX fonts are available as type1 fonts, see:

  http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=psfchoice

Follow the links at the bottom.

(Which font was used by lilypond 2.4, was it computer modern?)
If you are after the computer modern, get:

  http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/amsfonts/ps-type1/amsps-pc.zip

Regards,
/Karl