Re: Pango font availability

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi, Mats:

> See the information text for the example "font-family-override.ly"
> in the Regression tests document.

Thanks, but that doesn't actually solve my specific issue...

I'm not trying to change the default font set for the whole document  
(which is what the "font-family-override.ly" docs show) -- rather,  
I'm trying to
    1. determine precisely the set of fonts that Pango currently has  
available;
    2. determine precisely what the conditions are that Pango uses  
to find fonts;
    3. determine how to make Pango-phobic fonts Pango-philic (for  
use in titles, markup, etc).

For #1 and #2, the following thread response helped: <http:// 
lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2006-07/msg00265.html>

Essentially, you can use #(ly:font-config-display-fonts) to display  
the Pango-d font set, and the criteria (according to the author) is  
that "Pango on OSX can only use Truetype fonts (including dfonts)  
that contain only one font variant".

As for #3, I'm currently concluding that I need to use FontForge to  
generate single-variant TT fonts for each of the fonts I'm hoping to  
use in a Lilypond score. If I determine differently, I'll certainly  
update the list (and, where appropriate, the docs).

> I'll add the corresponding information to the manual.

Thanks! That will definitely help people who want to change the  
default font tree.

Cheers,
Kieren.