Re: Persian fonts

[patrick duka]

Hi everybody, need help with the Persian sori and koron glyphs. Here is a detailed description of what I tried

I am on macosx10.4.11

I went to Anrian Pertout's website, downloaded the "True Type fonts in zip archive fomat: 'Microtonal Font' " ( http://www.pertout.com/PhD2007Introduction.htm ) put it in macintosh hd/system/library/fonts  

I also put the persian.ly file in one of the folders that lilypond appeared to be searching into for it (namely: mac hd/user/music/music notes).

After pasting the following code (included in the persian.ly file) in Lilypond's text file:

\include "persian.ly"

\score {

  \relative c' {

           \set Staff.keySignature = \chahargahD

           \override Score.KeySignature #'text = #chahargahDKey

            bk'8 a gs fo r g ak g fs ek d c d ef16 d c4

     }

  \midi { }

  \layout { }

  }

}

I saved it and compiled it, the pdf file showed up with the glyphs completely messed up, instead of koron, sori, sharp, key signature, accidentals etc... I got these signs  :

ø  

! 

! 

ùù

 " ' ù!  

(see the attached pdf)

The notes and the clef are ok.

I get 5 error messages:

1º syntax error, unexpected '}'

2º (process:1240): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GDEF table 28333

3º (process:1240): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GSUB table 28333

4º (process:1240): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GPOS table 28333

5º Erreur : erreur sur les fichiers : "/Users/radif/Music/Musicnotes/chahargah.ly"  

   "Error: error on the files:..."

Now i guess something's wrong with the persian fonts, maybe the location i put them in; but the error message doesn't make it clear for me as where I have messed up. I see there are many pango files inLilypond's code source:

Lilypond 2.12.2/lily/pango-font-scheme.cc

Lilypond 2.12.2/lily/pango-font.cc

Lilypond 2.12.2/lily/include/pango-font.hh

Lilypond 2.12.2/lily/pango-select-scheme.cc

Lilypond 2.12.2/lily/pango-select.cc

Thanks all for your help.

-- 
Patrick

2009/3/15 Hans Aberg <address@hidden>

On 15 Mar 2009, at 18:55, Valentin Villenave wrote:

Just download the TrueType fonts and install them using the Font Book as
"Computer" (system wide) fonts. It worked on Mac OS X 10.5.x for PPC.

In recent LilyPond versions, you don't even have to install the font;
you can just put it in the same directory as your source file, and add

#(ly:font-config-add-directory "./")

before loading your font. (It is still a bit experimental though.)

One can install it (using the Font Book) in the home directory, but for some reason it did not work with the versions of LilyPond that I tried. Perhaps LilyPond must have ~/Library/Fonts added to the search path.

 Hans

-- 
Patrick