Re: Use TTF font for text in working directory?

[Stefan Hante]

Hi Werner,

thank you for quick and precise answer. It worked just as you said.

I used this to build a small project to create a beginner ocarina 
songbook, where under each note the fingering for the ocarina is 
printed. The project is on Git:

https://github.com/StHante/ocarinaBook

Just in case anyone is looking for something similar.

Best, Stefan

Am 07.12.2020 um 09:43 schrieb Werner LEMBERG:
> > Is it somehow possible to tell Lilypond to look for the .ttf file in
> > the working directory, ie. the directory in which the .ly file is
> > that is being compiled?
> Yes.  Here's some documentation from the current development version;
> the two mentioned scheme functions, however, are present in 2.20, too.
>
>    Finding fonts
>    -------------
>
>    In addition to any font already installed on the operating system,
>    more fonts may be added to the ones detected by FontConfig (and thus
>    available in LilyPond scores) by the following commands:
>
>      #(ly:font-config-add-font "path/to/font-file")
>      #(ly:font-config-add-directory "path/to/directory/")
>
>    Both commands accept either absolute or relative paths, which makes
>    it possible to compile a score on any system by simply distributing
>    the relevant font files together with the LilyPond input files.
>
> For your case it should be thus sufficient to add
>
>    #(ly:font-config-add-directory ".")
>
> at the top of your main `.ly` file (assuming that you call the
> `lilypond` binary while being in this directory).
>
>
>      Werner