Re: Italic Greek and nonroman Unicode?

[Trevor Bača]

On 3/11/07, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,

Hi Tom,

Just adding answers in here for posterity in the archive ...


> For getting italic Greek characters --
>
> 1) Do you have a font with italic Greek characters installed on your
> computer?  (I don't on mine.)

Yes, which is visible when, say, you check the fonts menu in a GUI
program like InDesign.


> 2) If so, is that italic Greek font file included amongst the fonts that
> your installation of LilyPond knows about?

No, and this turned out to be precisely the problem. This is visible
running -dshow-available-fonts and the solution for how to work this
out under OS X is here ...

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-03/msg00472.html



> If an italic Greek font is not available to Lily, it probably chooses a
> best-fit font, which would be a Greek font with upright characters.
>
> In addition, if the only italic Greek font you had installed were a
> sans-serif font, then
>
>    \markup { \italic \roman "G-r-e-e-k-c-h-a-r-s" }
>
> would almost certainly *still* pick upright roman Greek as the best fit.

Right, and this is exactly what happens until you teach lily about the
location of the correct font using fondu.


> -- Tom
>
> ****************************************************************
>
> Trevor Baca wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >?
> >The output of \markup \italic { "θ" } is upright instead of italic.
> >(Compare with \markup \italic { "th" } which is, in fact, italic.)
> >
> >Is there a way to get italic Greek (and other nonroman) Unicode markup?
> >
> >--
> >Trevor BaÄ^Ía
> >address@hidden


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