Re: Problems with music fonts

[David Bellows]

> I downloaded the Beethoven font and was able to use it with your code
with LilyPond 2.22.0 on my system (Fedora 33).

Thanks Kevin. I think that basically confirms that something is going
on with my system. But it also seems like there must be a difference
between those two sets of fonts that would relate to whatever is going
on.

I don't have any other computer to check this on but I do know I have
used these fonts before on a different computer running various
versions of Ubuntu.

Dave
https://www.platonicmusicengine.com

On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 2:15 AM Kevin Barry <barrykp@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi David,
>
> I downloaded the Beethoven font and was able to use it with your code
> with LilyPond 2.22.0 on my system (Fedora 33). I don't know what the
> problem is, but as you say it might be your system. If you have an older
> computer to try it on, that might be a good way for you to verify.
>
> Kevin
>
> On Sat, 2021-03-20 at 22:17 -0700, David Bellows wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > I am using LilyPond 2.23 but the problem I'm going to describe is
> > happening with older LilyPonds back 2.20.
> >
> > I am running Linux (Pop_OS! 20.10 which is basically Ubuntu 20.10). It
> > is a relatively new installation on a computer I bought a few months
> > ago.
> >
> > Here is the basic code:
> >
> > \version "2.23.0"
> > #(set-global-staff-size 16)
> > \paper {
> >   #(define fonts
> >     (set-global-fonts
> >       #:music "beethoven"
> >       #:brace "beethoven"
> >       #:factor (/ staff-height pt 20)
> >   ))
> > }
> > {c' d' e'128}
> >
> > With some music fonts this works, with others it doesn't.
> >
> > Works:
> > Gonville https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/gonville/
> > Arnold https://www.musictypefoundry.com/
> >
> > Doesn't work:
> > Everything from: https://github.com/OpenLilyPondFonts
> > and: https://github.com/lyp-packages?page=1
> >
> > I think all of those fonts on github are the same. Note, the Gonville
> > font in the latter two groups does not work while the one from the
> > website does.
> >
> > When I try to compile the above code with anything from the "Doesn't
> > work" group I get the following error:
> >
> > fatal error: unsupported font format:
> > /usr/local/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf/beethoven.otf
> >
> > Another data point. When I try to view any of the non-working fonts in
> > a font viewer, that also generates an error and nothing shows up. The
> > "working" fonts do show up in the font viewer.
> >
> > So I'm guessing maybe there's something weird going on somewhere else
> > on my system? I don't know how LilyPond handles music fonts, but if
> > there's some kind of standard font library that it expects from Linux,
> > maybe mine isn't the right one?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dave Bellows
> > https://www.platonicmusicengine.com
> >
>
>