Re: Alternative music font

[Patrick McCarty]

On 2009-11-01, Neil Puttock wrote:
> 2009/10/29 Patrick McCarty <address@hidden>:
> 
> > This isn't entirely true, now that I look at it again.  In this case,
> > gonville, gonville-brace, and aybabtu are all loaded, but aybabtu is
> > used for the braces.
> 
> Are you sure about the extra font-defaults setting?  It seems to
> overshadow the default for fetaMusic, resulting in failure to look up
> noteheads and clefs.

This is what I saw before reversing the settings (my latest commit),
and now everything loads fine for me.

Did you test with commit 7ee351718 instead of latest git?

> > Also, I checked \numericTimeSignature, and that's broken with
> > gonville.
> 
> Dynamics don't work either.  Would this be related to the way
> feta-alphabet is loaded using Pango?

Yes, exactly.  It's a complicated issue too.  Werner made a nice
summary of the relevant issues a year ago [1], and I have tried I
figure out a solution by doing some brainstorming on the wiki [2], but
I've temporary given up on it.  :-)

[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2008-11/msg00340.html
[2] http://wiki.lilynet.net/index.php/Font_handling

-Patrick