The "funny" thing is that it only happens when I create a PDF with
this particular font, from Lilypond.
When I create a PDF from a Word document, using the same font, the
problem does not exist...
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From: /Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden>/
To: /Lieke van der Meer <address@hidden>, Lilypond
bug <address@hidden>/
CC: /address@hidden/
Subject: /Re: question about fontsize lyrics/
Date: /Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:53:37 +0200/
>I cannot repeat the problem on my Linux machine, but I do get the
>same problem
>when I use my Windows installation. The problem is clearly related
>to so-called
>ligatures, which means that well-designed fonts have special symbols
>for character
>combinations like "ff", "fl" and "fi". For some reason, LilyPond (or
>probably the
>font handling library Pango used in LilyPond) gets the impression
>that your font
>has a ligature for "ft", which it in fact doesn't.
>
>I send a copy to the bug-lilypond mailing list, but I'm not sure if
>it's LilyPond's fault.
>
> /Mats
>
>Lieke van der Meer wrote:
>>Thank you Mats, I succeeded, but.... there seems to be a strange
>>error when creating a PDF file.
>>
>>The text 'heeft' turns into something like hee@, check with:
>>
>>melody = \relative c' {
>>\clef treble
>>\key g \major
>>\repeat volta 2 {
>>\time 4/4
>>b'4
>>}
>>}
>>text = \lyricmode {
>>\override Score . LyricText #'font-name = "Palatino Linotype"
>>{
>>Heeft
>>}}
>>\score{
>><<
>>\new Voice = "one" {
>>
>>\autoBeamOff
>>\melody
>>}
>>\new Lyrics \lyricsto "one" \text
>>>>
>>\layout { }
>>}
>>
>>What can I do about that? It seems to happen only with the
>>combination 'ft'...
>>Regards,
>>Lieke
>>
>>>From: Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden>
>>>To: Lieke van der Meer <address@hidden>
>>>CC: address@hidden
>>>Subject: Re: question about fontsize lyrics
>>>Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:31:14 +0200
>>>
>>>You are definitely on the right track. Try
>>>text = \lyricmode
>>>{
>>>\override Score . LyricText #'font-name = "Vera Bold"
>>>\override Score . LyricText #'font-shape = #'italic
>>>Glo- ri- a, ...
>>>
>>>However, at least on my system, there is no italic version of Vera
>>>Bold.
>>>For the font size, the manual tells that the font-size property is
>>>given relative
>>>to the value of the paper variable text-font-size, but it doesn't
>>>tell how this is
>>>set by default. By looking at the implementation, I found out that
>>>the default
>>>value of text-font-size is 12pt for the default 20pt staff size
>>>and in general
>>>12 / 20 * staff size.
>>>
>>> /Mats
>>>
>>>Lieke van der Meer wrote:
>>>>Hello,
>>>>A week ago I started using Lilypond. So far it seems to have
>>>>fabulous possibilities. I only have one simple question.
>>>>I want to change the fontsize & fonttype of the lyrics in my
>>>>file, but can't find a way to do so. I will ad an example of one
>>>>of my files.
>>>>Please tell me how to change these to (preferably) Palatino
>>>>Linotype, 14pt.
>>>>Thanx
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>\paper {
>>>> #(set-paper-size "a4")
>>>>#(set-global-staff-size 10)
>>>>left-margin = 15\mm
>>>>line-width = #150
>>>>system-count = 2
>>>>}
>>>>\layout {
>>>> indent = #0
>>>>}
>>>>melody = \relative c'
>>>>{
>>>>\clef treble
>>>>\key f \major
>>>>\repeat volta 2
>>>>{
>>>>\time 6/8
>>>>a'8( g) a bes4. g8( f) g a4. \bar "||" d,4 d8 g8( a) bes c4. a
>>>>\bar "||"
>>>>a8( d) c bes4. g8( c) bes a4. \bar "||" f8 e f g4. e8 d e f4.
>>>>}
>>>>}
>>>>text = \lyricmode
>>>>\override Score . LyricText #'font-name . "Vera Bold"
>>>>#'font-shape = #'italic
>>>>
>>>>{
>>>>Glo- ri- a, glo- ri- a, in ex- cel- sis De- o!
>>>>Glo- ri- a, glo- ri- a, al- le- lu- ia, al- le- lu- ia!
>>>>}
>>>>\score
>>>>{
>>>><<
>>>>\new Voice = "one"
>>>>{
>>>>
>>>>\autoBeamOff
>>>>\melody
>>>>}
>>>>\new Lyrics \lyricsto "one" \text
>>>>>>
>>>>\layout { }
>>>>\midi { \tempo 4=67 }
>>>>}
>>>>
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>>> Royal Institute of Technology
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