RE: Using my local font for the title

[James Lowe]

No but I have now.

Thanks

James

-----Original Message-----
From: Graham Percival [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Thu 1/14/2010 21:13
To: James Lowe
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Using my local font for the title
 
Have you read
  input/regression/gonville.ly
?

Also, you might want to consider adding some kind of docs about this.

Cheers,
- Graham

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 04:10:23PM -0500, James Lowe wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This maybe inappropriate, but can I use this method to use a different
> font for the engraving?
> 
> Specifically
> 
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/gonville/
> 
> If not this specific option, then maybe another.
> 
> This specific web page was last updated Oct 09, so things may have
> changed since then, but the implication is it was non-trivial (and there
> are instructions given here) but I wondered if things had changed since
> 2.13.5 such that you can 'point' to a different font in this regard?
> 
> I've looked in the IR, but it seems there is no one 'global' setting that is 
> obvious to a relatively simple Lilypond user like myself
> 
> The example in this thread, I understand though, was specifically for
> typesetting titles text than engraving music.
> 
> James
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 20:56 +1100, Nick Payne wrote:
> > \header {
> >      title = \markup {
> >          \override #'(font-name . "Vadstenakursive")
> >          "Whatever your title is"
> >      }
> > }
> > 
> > Nick
> > 
> > On 13/01/10 06:47, Tor wrote:
> > > Dear all
> > >
> > > Thank you for an incredible tool that even beats Sibelius,
> > > at least for my
> > > purposes.
> > >
> > > I have managed to set my local font for the
> > > lyrics and the instrument name by the
> > > lines:
> > >
> > >   \override LyricText #'font-name = #"Vadstenakursive"
> > >   \override InstrumentName #'font-name = #"Vadstenakursive"
> > >
> > > where Vadstenakursive is the font I want to be using.
> > > However I can't find the corrsponding command (or where to put it) for 
> > > the title.
> > >    
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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