selecting fonts -- partial solution (Mac OS X)

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hello, all!

There have been a number of discussions about this recently --  
including several threads I started myself (and to which am still  
waiting for a response)...  ;-)

In any case, I've been doing some digging around, and I just wanted  
to pass on some of my findings, in case it helps anyone else. [BTW:  
I'm sorry if this doesn't help anyone not working on Mac OS X 10.4.x  
or Lilypond 2.9.x, which is the basis for all these findings -- maybe  
something will be of some help on other OSes and other Lilypond  
versions...]

1. Fonts may be selected directly in a \markup using

    \markup { \override #'(font-name . "FAMILY NAME") "my font-ed  
markup" }

where "FAMILY NAME" is the name found by opening the font in  
FontBook, showing Font Info (Apple-I), and then looking at the  
"Family" line. No need to build a pango-tree, etc.!!

2. So far, I have determined that .dfont and Font Suitcase formats  
work fine, and that in particular ***Windows TrueType fonts (.ttf) DO  
NOT***. [If you have a .ttf font that you absolutely must have in  
your Lilypond output, download FontForge and generate a Font Suitcase  
or .dfont version from the TTF original.] Unfortunately, many of the  
fonts included with Mac OS X (by Apple themselves) are .ttf files,  
and so these are, as far as I can tell, unavailable to Lilypond  
without extra effort.

I haven't yet figured out how to force the selection of a particular  
weight within a family, but if I do, I'll be sure to advise the list.

Hope this helps someone else!
Kieren.