Re: Fink's Lilypond 2.6.3 and tex backend

[Mats Bengtsson]

Version 2.6 and later has much better support for other fonts. In fact the
default text font is now New Century Schoolbook. See Section
"8.1.8 Font selection" and the examples "font-family-override.ly" and
"font-name.ly" in the Regression Tests document.

  /Mats

Christian Ebert wrote:

> * Mats Bengtsson on Tuesday, October 18, 2005:
>  
>
> > I haven't followed the whole thread, but if all you want is to use
> > lilypond-book,  there's absolutely no need to have the tex backend
> > of lilypond working. From version 2.6, lilypond-book includes
> > eps files for every score line, so as long as LilyPond works for
> > ordinary scores with the default postscript backend and LaTeX
> > works for normal LaTeX documents, then lilypond-book should
> > also work.
> >    
>
> With lilypond-1.+ I was able to do something like:
>
>  \override Score.BarNumber   #'font-name = #'"psbr9d"
>
> or
>
>  \override LyricText   #'font-name = #'"pdirj8t"
>
> to use a different font than the <shudder> ec-fonts-mftraced. I
> don't believe I can do this w/o the tex backend working. But this
> is what I need (song lyrics etc. see above).
>
> c
>  

--
=============================================
        Mats Bengtsson
        Signal Processing
        Signals, Sensors and Systems
        Royal Institute of Technology
        SE-100 44  STOCKHOLM
        Sweden
        Phone: (+46) 8 790 8463                         
       Fax:   (+46) 8 790 7260
        Email: address@hidden
        WWW: http://www.s3.kth.se/~mabe
=============================================