Re: LyricTie: Different font used from 2.12 to 2.13?

[Phil Holmes]

Thanks.  Submitted as 
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1294

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Phil Holmes


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "RobUr" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: LyricTie: Different font used from 2.12 to 2.13?


Sure, forgot it in the hassle ... there's nothing unusual:

--- snip ---
\version "2.13.35"

\relative c' {
r4^"2.13.35 (uses “MS-Gothic”)" f e d | c2 c
}

\addlyrics { Buon gior -- no~al mon -- do. }
--- snap ---

Best, Robert

> Please could you post the LilyPond snippet that you use to generate this 
> example.
>
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> Phil Holmes
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "RobUr" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 7:43 AM
> Subject: LyricTie: Different font used from 2.12 to 2.13?
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> everything was fine with LyricTies, until I came up with a score (say:
> lyrics in this score) when trying the current Lily devel.
> What happened? In 2.12.3: all lyric ties have been placed beautifully
> where they have to be – starting right at the bottom right corner of the
> left letter and ending right at the bottom left corner of the following
> letter. On Mac OS X Tiger, Lily 2.12.3 (and before) resp. 
> Pango/FontConfig
> has chosen "Helvetica" to borrow this special char from. Great – fits
> excellent!
>
> NOW on the same machine – same OS, same hardware (sorry, can't change 
> that
> much, it's a MacBook), no re-install ever since Lily 11.x lived here (may
> I call this "stable"?) – now Lily 2.13.34 upwards finds "MS-Gothic" to be
> tied to lyrically!!! It's not for the font, but for the way Mr U+203F is
> invoked: suddenly the glyph is much more narrow, it starts beneath the
> vertical center of the letter and ends halfway the wordspace, leaving the
> same gap before the following letter, where it was intended to stop.
>
> So WHY do Lily 2.12 and 2.13 on the SAME MACHINE choose different 
> (system)
> fonts for the lyric tie? I greped all Lily-containers for "Helvetica" or
> "MS-Gothic" to discover a new preference for the new font, but without
> success. Is it Pango to make the choice on its own leaving Lily back with
> baddest spacing? Please, compare the clips and see, how ugly it's now on
> Mac OS X :(( I've found some code to modify the lyric tie spacing, but
> that's just a solution for my local machine, not suitable to give away 
> ...
>
> Setup: LP 2.12.3 and 2.13.11–35 on Mac OS X (10.4.11 Intel)
>
> Regards,
> Robert
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