Re: still wrong fonts

[Mats Bengtsson]

I can report that the problem went away when I installed
a newer version of fontconfig. Seems worthwhile to mention
this dependency in INSTALL.txt and consider changing the
configure warning to an error or a more informative warning.

   /Mats

Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am I the only one who still have to link font files into ~/.fonts/
> in order to get correct fonts for dynamics and fingerings?
>
> Basically, I have a RedHat 9.0 without root access, so I have
> had to install newer versions of fontforge, freetype, pango
> and guile locally to be able to build LilyPond.
> When running configure, I get the following warning:
>
> WARNING: Please consider installing optional programs: libfontconfig-dev 
> or fontconfig-devel >= 2.2.0 (installed: 1.0.1)
>
> Could this be the source of the problems? Why, then, isn't this
> warning turned into an error message and why isn't fontconfig
> even mentioned in INSTALL.txt?
>
> Also, how come that it's so hard to make LilyPond find the fonts
> for dynamics and fingerings when it finds the basic feta fonts for
> the music symbols without problems?
>
>    /Mats
>
> Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
>
> > Op ma, 25-04-2005 te 19:10 +0200, schreef Sean Reed:
> >
> > > hi,
> > >
> > > i've installed 2.5.18, .19 and now .20 on macos 10.3.9 and still have 
> > > problems with the fonts for the dynamics.
> > >
> > > the only things which seem to be affected are the dynamic letters 
> > > (ie, p, f, etc.).
> > > they are the right letters, but look like a monaco or something.
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm onto it, but in the meantime, do this:
> >
> >   cd $HOME
> >   mkdir .fonts
> >   ln -s  /sw/share/lilypond/2.5.20/fonts/type1/feta-alphabet* .fonts

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