Re: fedora fc8 and japanese fonts

[Trevor Daniels]

Patrick

The fonts available to LilyPond can't be listed generically as these are
determined by the fonts available on individual systems.  They are
discovered and set up the first time LilyPond is executed.  The ones
available to LilyPond on your system can be listed in font.out by entering
the following command line command:

lilypond -dshow-available-fonts > fonts.out 2>&1

which can then be inspected.  I'm not sure if this list gives the exact
names to be used in 'font-name though.

Trevor

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "corallina" <address@hidden>
To: "lilypond-user" <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 11:05 PM
Subject: fedora fc8 and japanese fonts


> I am working on some scores using a japanese font for hiragana lyrics.
> My guess is that the default font is VLGothic  as that is the font that
> always shows up in the file -> properties -> fonts   when evince has an
> open document and no specific font is named.
> The VL Gothic  fonts look somewhat industrial to me so I was looking 
> around
> for some alternatives in  /usr/share/fonts.    There were two other
> fonts that I tried
> sazanami-gothic  and sazanami-mincho to see if there was any difference.
> I don't know how it works on other systems but the font-name that lily 
> uses
> has to come from   /etc/fonts/conf.d   and then  grep for  something like
> azanami.   So whats below doesn't work
>
> \new Lyrics  \with  {  alignBelowContext = "vocalmelody"  }
>  \lyricsto  "vocalmelody"  {
>      \override LyricText #'font-name = #"sazanami-mincho"
>      \override LyricText #'font-size = #2
>      \override LyricSpace #'minimum-distance = #1.0
>      \vocaltextHB
>  }
>
> But changing this one line does
>      \override LyricText #'font-name = #"Sazanami Mincho"
>
> If someone can provide further explanation I would appreciate it as I
> fiddled for quite some time to figure this out.  Or is there a list that
> lily uses with the correct way to enter the font names?
>
> patrick
>
>
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