Re: Format of -dshow-available-fonts output

[Urs Liska]

Am 25.07.2018 um 15:04 schrieb Torsten Hämmerle:
> Urs Liska-3 wrote
> > What makes me wonder even more is that in a LilyPond file the following
> > two are possible (i.e. call the right font):
> >
> > \override TextScript.font-name = "TeX Gyre Adventor Bold Italic"
> > \override TextScript.font-name = "TeXGyreAdventor Bold Italic"
> >
> > but not this:
> >
> > \override TextScript.font-name = "TeX Gyre Adventor BoldItalic"
> > \override TextScript.font-name = "TeXGyreAdventor BoldItalic"
>
> Hi Urs,
>
> You could even write
> "T EXGY   Read vento R"

OK, I now see, there is also a reference to "ignore spaces" somewhere in 
the verbose log output.

> The styles, however, have to be separated by space(s) and they also have to
> be separated from the font family name.

Then why is LilyPond (in the output of -dshow-available-fots) reporting 
"BoldItalic" and not "Bold Italic"?

> Urs Liska-3 wrote
> > [texgyreadventor_bold_italic_3.8662109375]
> > [tex_gyre_adventor_bold_italic_3.8662109375]
> These are the keys used for the font buffering hash table built from the
> font-name specified and the Pango font size (this is an absolute font size
> not depending on the current LilyPond output scale).
>
> Spaces will be transformed into _ and everything will be converted to lower
> case. Physically, it's the same font in both cases.
>
> In the extreme example with "T EXGY   Read vento R", the internally used
> font key will be:
> [t_exgy___read_vento_r_3.8662109375]
> When using 12pt instead of the standard 11pt font size, the generated key
> name will be:
> [t_exgy___read_vento_r_4.2177734375]

Thanks for the explanation.
Urs

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