Re: Installing Alternate Music Fonts with Frescobaldi and Homebrew Installation on M1 Mac

[Jesse Wiener]

Hi Valentin, 

After much trial and error with other things, I really thought I had it figured out when I did it that way. I dragged all the individual otf files into the otf folder so it resembled what was already there -- no subdirectories or anything. 

I tried compiling both using LilyPond directly and using Frescobaldi to no avail. And there are no useful details in the error message. I just get "Exited with return code 11" in Frescobaldi and "fatal error: failed filed:" and then the file name with no additional detail. 

I appreciate your time. Thank you!

Best,

Jesse

On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 9:27 AM Valentin Petzel <valentin@petzel.at> wrote:

Hello Jesse,

might it be that you are installing the fonts wrongly? The font files should directly go into the otf folder, with no subdirectories or whatever.

Valentin

09.02.2022 15:21:37 Jesse Wiener <jesse.wiener@gmail.com>:

Valentin -- That's exactly the path I've been trying to no avail. I tracked down that folder but the fonts just aren't being recognized as having been installed. 

Jean -- I always have a bit of anxiety that I'm missing something obvious when I'm planning on writing to the mailing list and this would appear to be such a situation :). I'll look over that thread (which I see now). Thank you!

Best,

Jesse

On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 6:34 PM Valentin Petzel <valentin@petzel.at> wrote:

Hello Jesse,

I cannot say anything for sure (lacking a mac to try this on), but
theoretically you just need to find the folder homebrew installs the packages
to (according to the internet /usr/local/Cellar), find the folder for lilypond
and and put the fonts into share/lilypond/current/fonts/

Cheers,
Valentin

Am Mittwoch, 9. Februar 2022, 00:03:34 CET schrieb Jesse Wiener:
> Hi all,
>
> Apologies if this has been covered. I couldn't find anything about it in
> the archives.
>
> I have an M1 mac running Monterey. I use Frescobaldi and my LilyPond
> install was done with Homebrew. It all works wonderfully well.
>
> My question is:
>
> Is there some way to install alternate music fonts with this setup?
> Obviously there's no .app package to put the fonts into, which makes me
> think that until we have an official LilyPond.app for recent macOS
> releases, there might be no way around this.
>
> But I wanted to put it to the group. Has anyone found a workaround?
>
> I did try placing font files into the 'share' folder that Homebrew creates
> but that didn't seem to work. Frescobaldi threw errors.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Best,
> Jesse Wiener

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