RE: Font documentation?

[Fairchild]

Mats -

Thanks for the convincing response.  After rummaging as you suggest, I'm
really sure I don't want to continue digging.

All I really want to do is control markup fonts - so far good enough by
stumbling around.

Please forward my list of questions to those who will document the LilyPond
implementation for the naive user, when it settles.

                                           - Bruce

-----Original Message-----
From: Mats Bengtsson [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 6:22 AM
To: Fairchild
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Font documentation?


This is a bit intricate and involves knowledge both about
TeX and LaTeX font handling in general and how it's done
within LilyPond. Are you really sure that you want to get
into this mess? Also, the font handling in the current development version,
2.5.xx and the upcoming stable 2.6 will be quite different, so I don't
recommend you to spend too much effort now.

Anywa, to learn about font handling in LaTeX, run the command

texdoc fntguide

to see the documentation. Also, there's some more documentation at
http://www.tug.org/tetex/tetex-texmfdist/doc/.

However, LilyPond doesn't use these high level font commands, rather it uses
low level TeX commands that directly specifies the name of the font file.
This name, in turn, is determined based on the font related properties of
the corresponding layout object in LilyPond. For example, to find out the
default font used for lyrics, go to the section in the on-line manual on
"Entering lyrics" and follow the link at the bottom of the page to the
program reference for the LyricText layout object. There, you will find that
the font-series is bold-narrow and relative size is +1. To find out other
possible font related properties to set, click on the link font-interface.
The mapping in LilyPond from these properties to the actual font file isn't
really documented so you have to go to the source code file, which is
/usr/share/lilypond/2.4.3/scm/fonts.scm


    /Mats

Fairchild wrote:
> I've been fooling with fonts and getting flusterated.
> 
> Is there documentation that will answer such questions as:
> 
>  - What is the default font?
>  - What is unique to the default font?
>  - What font sets are conveniently available?
>  - How to reach other font sets that are provided with download?
>  - Which are scaleable?
>  - What are the font set file naming conventions?
>  - What file types (extensions) can be used: .cm, .mf, .tex, . . .  ?
>  - How many characters are in each font set: 128, 256, . . .  ?
>  - How to peek at the font sets?
>  - What are the characters for <blank> and <line feed>?
>  - Etc., etc.
> 
> Using 2.4.3 under Cygwin, Windows XP.
> 
> I'm not asking for detailed answers to these specific questions, 
> though
> they would be helpful, but for pointers to documentation.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>                                        - Bruce
> 
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