Re: Sans Font for Lilypond texts?

[Mats Bengtsson]

If all you want to do is to get a Sans font for lyrics, it's just to 
redefine the
corresponding font property. To do this for all Lyrics contexts in your 
file,
you can add
\layout{
 \context{
   \Lyrics
   \override LyricText #'font-family = #'sans
 }
}
anywhere at the top level of the .ly file.

On the other hand, if you want this specific file, you have to use the
(make-pango-font-tree ...) command, which unfortunately needs to know
the current staff size. One practical way to do it is to remove the line
myStaffSize = #20
from your .ly file and in your .lytex do
\begin[staffsize=11]{lilypond}
\paper{ myStaffSize = #11 }
\include "test.ly"
\end{lilypond}

If you also want to be able to run the same .ly file standalone, then 
you could
make a separate wrapper .ly file that just contains
\paper{ myStaffSize = #20 }
\include "test.ly"

   /Mats

Dominic Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to try to have all my lyrics typeset in a Sans font. Therefor
> I´ve used a snippet from LSR
> (http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=221):
>
> %%% BEGIN OF SNIPPET %%%
> \paper {
>   myStaffSize = #20
>
>   #(define fonts
>     (make-pango-font-tree "Bitstream Vera Sans"
>                           "Nimbus Sans"
>                           "Luxi Mono"
>      (/ myStaffSize 20)))
> }
> %%% END OF SNIPPET %%%
>
> I substituted Times New Roman with Bitstream Vera Sans what isn´t a
> very good way, I think.
> When producing lilypond-output directly with lilypond this works quite
> good, but together with lilypond-book the layout is very bad: the
> barlines and stems are smaller than they should be to suit the size of
> the noteheads.
>
> I produced two simple examples to show what I did:
>
> %%%% BEGIN OF PURE LILYPOND-FILE%%%%
> \version "2.10.29"
>
> \paper {
>     myStaffSize = #20
>
>     #(define fonts
>         (make-pango-font-tree "Bitstream Vera Sans"
>                           "Nimbus Sans"
>                           "Luxi Mono"
>         (/ myStaffSize 20)))
> }
>
> verseOne = \lyricmode {
>     \set stanza = "1. "
>     test bla blub -- ber
>     test bla blub -- ber
> }
>
> \score {
>     {
>         <<
>         \relative c'' {
>             \key d \major
>             \time 2/4
>             cis4 d | e fis
>             cis4 d | e fis
>             \bar "|."
>         }
>         \addlyrics { \verseOne }
>         >>
>     }
> }
>
> %%%% ENDOF PURE LILYPOND-FILE%%%%
>
> %%%% BEGIN OF LYTEX-FILE %%%%
> \documentclass{article}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> \lilypondfile[staffsize=11]{test.ly}
>
> \end{document}
> %%%% END OF LYTEX-FILE %%%%
>
>
> As you see, I cannot change the Staffsize and everything belonging to
> it from within the LyTeX-file. How can I achieve this in another way?
> I hope there is a more straight-forward way ...
>
> Thanks, Dominic
>
> PS: It seems that the \sans command only works within \markup
> commands. So I cannot say "\sans" at the beginning of the document to
> make everything appear in a Sans font.
>   
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