Re: Finding Century fonts

[Sven Axelsson]

On 7 September 2012 07:07, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Did you (or someone) figure out why this is happening? I recently
>> upgraded to Lilypond 2.16, and get exactly the same problem. The text
>> font is set to Bitstream Vera Sans instead of Century Schoolbook.
>
>> Emmenthaler is found just fine, even though it is in the same folder
>> as Century.
>
> The lilypond binary explicitly adds the folder which contains the
> Emmentaler fonts to the search path of fontconfig.  However, for
> normal text handling, control is given to the Pango library which in
> turn calls another instance of fontconfig, not knowing what the
> lilypond binary has done.  In other words: Either install the Century
> fonts at a place where fontconfig is looking by default (for example,
> in your local ~/.fonts directory), or globally modify fontconfig's
> configuration file (e.g. /etc/fonts/local.conf) to add the directory
> with the Century fonts.
>
> At least this is my theory as a non-Mac user.  I have no idea whether
> `~/.fonts' and `/etc/fonts/local.conf' have the same name and location
> on a Mac.  And I also have no idea how to fix this in the lilypond
> distribution so that such manual actions become unnecessary.

OK. Adding the Lilypond font directory to my ~/.fonts.conf file did the trick.

Thanks

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