Re: font switching help

[Mats Bengtsson]

Johan Vromans wrote:
> While at the subject...
>
> To change the default fonts for a document, the advised code is:
>
>   \paper  {
>     myStaffSize = #20
>     #(define fonts
>       (make-pango-font-tree "Times New Roman"
>                             "Nimbus Sans"
>                             "Luxi Mono"
>                              (/ myStaffSize 20)))
>   }
>
> This a) requires an explicit variable setting for the staff size, and
>   
You could just as well do (for the case the font size is 14pt, for 
pedagogical reasons):
 \paper  {
   #(define fonts
     (make-pango-font-tree "Times New Roman"
                           "Nimbus Sans"
                           "Luxi Mono"
                            (/ 14 20)))
 }

> b) suggests the statements must be executed (or re-executed with a
> different value of myStaffSize) after a possible staff size selection.
>
> The latter is not true, changing the staff size also scales the fonts.
>   
Well, yes and no! If you add a #(set-global-staff-size ...) below a
\paper{#(define-fonts (make-pango-font-tree ....}, then you will get 
back the default fonts,
not the ones you specified in the (define-fonts ...) command.

It's unfortunate that nobody (I feel somewhat guilty) has had the time 
to document this in a
better way or to follow-up on the ideas discussed in 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2008-02/msg00038.html

   /Mats
> We have #(set-global-staff-size ...) to designate the desired staff
> size, so why is another size specification necessary?
>
> -- Johan
>
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