Re: Fonts for TextScripts

[Aaron Hill]

On 2020-06-26 3:05 am, Aberforth D - Instrumentals wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem obtaining the correct font for TextScripts. When I 
> type
> the following command:
>
> c4^\markup \italic "legato"
>
> it shows up all right in Frescobaldi but the svg file does not produce 
> the
> correct font. Indeed, the source-code of the svg file only states 
> "serif"
> as font.

I cannot reproduce this behavior.  Here is my MWE for reference:

%%%%
\version "2.20.0"
{ b'4 ^\markup \italic "Hello" }
%%%%

The relevant excerpt from the SVG file:
====
<text transform="translate(17.2358, 1.6730)" font-family="serif" 
font-style="italic" font-size="2.2001" text-anchor="start" 
fill="currentColor">
<tspan>Hello</tspan>
</text>
====

> When I specify an explicit font in the voice context like this:
>
> \context {
>     \Voice
>     \override TextScript.font-name = #"Times New Roman"
> }
>
> the text is no longer in italic, even though I left the markup line
> unchanged. The svg file states:
> font-family="Times New"
> so it seems the "Roman" is stripped away and the font is not 
> recognized.
> There is also no tag that the font-style should be italic.

Two things here:

1) "Roman" can be confused with a style, so you need to add a comma 
after the font family.

%%%%
\version "2.20.0"
{ b'4 -\tweak font-name "Times New Roman," ^"Hello" }
%%%%

2) When specifying an explicit font-name, things like \italic no longer 
work.  You must then manually specify the style after the font family.

%%%%
\version "2.20.0"
{ b'4 -\tweak font-name "Times New Roman, Italic" ^"Hello" }
%%%%


-- Aaron Hill