Re: About issue 4931 make \deadNote work with different fonts

[tisimst]

On Sunday, September 4, 2016, Federico Bruni-2 [via Lilypond] <
address@hidden> wrote:

> Il giorno mar 26 lug 2016 alle 18:27, tisimst
> <[hidden email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=194200&i=0>>
> ha scritto:
> > Just for the record (and maybe this is the wrong place to record it),
> > I
> > thought I'd clarify some confusion in the thread referred to in the
> > above
> > issue.
>
> >
> > 1. There is no "Feta" font. It's called "Emmentaler", but it consists
> > of
> > two sub-sets of glyphs: "Feta" (the classical notation glyphs) and
> > "Parmesan" (the ancient notation glyphs).
> >
> > 2. Since Emmentaler comes in 8 different optical sizes, the commands
> > to
> > load them only require the root name "emmentaler" to load them all.
> >
> > 3. The fonts are located, not in the system's font directory(s), but
> > in the
> > program's own font folder, typically
> > "[LilyPondDir]/usr/share/lilypond/current/fonts/".
> >
> > 4. To use Emmentaler (or whichever is the main font, if using an
> > alternative) for a grob that supports the font-interface, it can be
> > set via
> > the 'font-family property, but the value isn't 'emmentaler, it's 'feta
> > (sigh). It's a shorter name, which is nice, but it isn't _technically_
> > accurate.
> >
> > 5. In a \markup, the fonts can be accessed directly with the real font
> > name, like "emmentaler-23".
> >
> > 6. In the NR, section A.8 is entitled "The Feta font", but the
> > opening line
> > starts out with "The following symbols are available in the Emmentaler
> > font..."
> >
> > In other words, there's some inconsistency floating around.
>
> We discussed this almost an year ago :)
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-11/msg00594.html
>
> Finally I'll take action and add an issue on the tracker:
> https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/4966/
>

Thank you, Federico, for adding this!

Best,
Abraham




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