Re: Update on changing header fonts

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Michael J Millett schreef:
> I wanted to post an update of my attempt at changing the fonts in the 
> headers, since it might be helpful to other non-programmers like myself. 
> It's been a real education!
>
> Writing this code into the header part of an LP file, then running it in 
> LP, produced a long list of fonts that are available to LP:
>
> #(ly:font-config-display-fonts)
>
> Here is a short example of what it looked like:
>
> family AppleGothic
>  AppleGothic:style=Regular
> family Osaka
>  Osaka:style=Regular-Mono
> family Century Schoolbook L
>  Century Schoolbook L:style=Bold
> family Century Schoolbook L
>  Century Schoolbook L:style=Italic
> family Helvetica CY
>  Helvetica CY:style=Plain,Simple,Standard,Normale,Standaard,Normal,Texto 
> com˙n,Almindelig,Texto Normal
>
> Not all the fonts on my system got listed or seem to be available. I 
> don't know why that is or what to do about it; That will have to be a 
> project for later. The font I really wanted to use, Goudy, was not one 
> that was listed as being available.

they have to be available to fontconfig, which has its configuration 
inside the .app bundle. By default it includes the following directories

  /Library/Fonts/
  /System/Library/Fonts/
  ~/.fonts/

where is your Goudy installed?

> Cutting and pasting from the list into an LP file miraculously produced 
> a font change. The name from the list that LP wanted was the word after 
> "family". Here is the code for an absurd but working example:
>
> \header {
>   title    = \markup { \override #'(font-name . "F u t u r a  ") 
> "FEUILLET D'ALBUM"}
> composer = \markup { \override #'(font-name . "A m e r i c a n   T y p e 
> w r i t e r ") "JS Bach" } }
>
> Here is the oddity: Notice that in the font names, a space  exists 
> between each later. I would never have guessed this as a possibility.

It should also work without the spaces.

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