Re: Pango font availability

[Mats Bengtsson]

Quoting Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden>:

> Hi, Mats:
>
> > See the information text for the example "font-family-override.ly"
> > in the Regression tests document.
>
> Thanks, but that doesn't actually solve my specific issue...
>
> I'm not trying to change the default font set for the whole document  
> (which is what the "font-family-override.ly" docs show) -- rather,  
> I'm trying to
>     1. determine precisely the set of fonts that Pango currently has  
> available;

That's exactly the question I answered. To be more specific, I have
added the following to the manual:

To get a full list of all available fonts, run the command
lilypond -dshow-available-fonts blabla
(the last argument of the command can be anything, but has to be present).


>     2. determine precisely what the conditions are that Pango uses  
> to find fonts;
>     3. determine how to make Pango-phobic fonts Pango-philic (for  
> use in titles, markup, etc).
>
> For #1 and #2, the following thread response helped: <http:// 
> lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2006-07/msg00265.html>
>
> Essentially, you can use #(ly:font-config-display-fonts) to display  
> the Pango-d font set
Yes, that's an alternative!

  /Mats