Re: Changing ChordNames font

[Hans Aberg]

On 27 Sep 2007, at 19:29, Kieren MacMillan wrote:

> > How does one change the font used by ChordNames?
>
> Override the ChordName #'font-family property -- two obvious ways are
>
>     \layout { \context { \ChordNames \override ChordName #'font- 
> family = #'Times } }
>
> and
>
>     \new ChordNames \with { \override ChordName #'font-family =  
> #'Times }

Actually, I experimented with things similar to the second, but did  
not get it work. I had to use the syntax:
  \new ChordNames \with { \override ChordName #'font-name =  
#'"Helvetica" }
If I try say
  \new ChordNames \with { \override ChordName #'font-family = #'Times }
I get a serif font.

When I add
  \override ChordName #'font-series = #'bold
then I do not seem to get bold. But that is not a big matter.

This also resolves the bug: It is the font Verdana that is somehow  
incompatible (too old?).

> The trick is to get the right font-family name, as known to  
> Lilypond on your particular system -- to see the "blessed font  
> list", run the following command (from the command line in Terminal):
>
>     /Applications/Lilypond/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/ 
> lilypond -dshow-available-fonts
>
> [n.b. Change the path as necessary to locate your copy of the  
> executable.]

Thank you, I would not have figure that startup argument out!

Otherwise, I run Lilypond from the console (Terminal), using Xcode  
for editing, like
  lilypond file.ly
  open file.pdf
(One can set .ly files to open to ones favorite editor using the  
System Preferences panel Rubicode RcDefaultApps <http:// 
www.rubicode.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/>. I have set softlinks in ~/ 
local/bin/lilypond to the full path above, and added ~/local/bin/ to  
PATH in .profile.)

  Hans Åberg