Re: font errors but still output both on XP and Leonard (Macosx 10.5.1)

[Mats Bengtsson]

I hope you have managed to convince your text editor to save the file
using UTF8 encoding, otherwise you will see exactly the problems
you describe.

  /Mats

Marcus Käppi wrote:
> Lilypond is a fantastic program! When it works...
>
> I have identical problems on my Mac (10.5.1,PPC G4) as previously reported
> on XP. 
> "
> (process:272): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_coverage_get: assertion `index >= 0'
> failed
>
> programming error: FT_Get_Glyph_Name returns error
> continuing, cross fingers
> programming error: Glyph has no name, but font supports glyph naming.
> Skipping glyph U+FFFFFFFF, file
> /Users/marcuskappi/Desktop/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf//CenturySchL-Bold.otf
> continuing, cross fingers
> "
> The original remaining problem is that the menu-system on lilypond does no
> longer work for me,
> so I tried to use the terminal interface.
> "~/Desktop/LilyPondPPC.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond --pdf
> --output=dede dede.ly"
> which produces a pdf file with the characters å,ä,ö etc. removed just
> displaying blanks. However
> other characters a-z is printed.
>
> The problem remains after reboot and reinstall of previous lilypond versions
> such as 2.10.33
>
> So for now, the lyrics has to be constrained to english only....
>
> I hope and pray someone will solve this problem soon, since we can't all be
> linux users...
>
> /Marcus Käppi
>
>   

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