Questions regarding TeX backend

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> 2. By what nomenclature does one select text fonts using the postscript 
> backend? 
>Where does lilypond (or pango?) look for these font files?  

It is done through Pango  (which uses FontConfig). Lilypond uses the
same fonts as GNOME and other Gtk apps.

> Must these fonts be visible to TeX?

no.

> Can anyone give a working example?


        {
          \override TextScript #'font-name = #"Times" 
          c4^\markup
          {
            this is in times
          }
        }

My todo list has an item for more fine-grained control of this, using
#'font-family and friends

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