Re: Lyric tie

[Francisco Vila]

2010/11/23 Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>:

>> http://paconet.org/prueba.pdf
>>
>> It looks all right in evince, but prints very misplaced on printer
>> and looks the same in jedit/lilypondtool.
>
> This your file looks fine with all PDF viewers I've installed on my
> system; the lyric tie is taken from the `FreeSerif' font.
>
> I've tried your input file on my box, and here the lyric tie is taken
> from the `Sazanami-Mincho-Regular' font (which looks good too, BTW).
> In other words, you have to fiddle with the configuration of
> FontConfig to get a decent fallback font; this can't be controlled by
> lilypond.

The fact is, my default configuration exhibits the problem.  I'll try
to do what you suggest (no the slightest idea about how to, at
present).

>> Do you know a way of figuring out which font does a glyph of the PDF
>> belong to?
>
> Post-mortem, this is not difficult: Just use the --ps option of
> lilypond and search for `/uni203F' in the created PS file.

Yes.  That single character adds 2,855,700 bytes to the PS and 62,425
bytes to the PDF. (!)

>
>> \override LyricText #'font-name = #"DejaVuLGC"
>
> Hmm.  I've the DejaVu fonts installed too, but calling `fc-list', I
> can't find an entry for `DejaVuLGC'.  Looking at
>
>  http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Main_Page
>
> I can see that this is a derivative which contains only Latin, Greek,
> and Cyrillic glyphs.  And it doesn't contain the undertie `uni203F'!
> Uh, oh.  Checking the complete font, `DejaVu Serif' (version 2.32), I
> see that it doesn't contain `uni203F' either...
>
> So you should stay with the `FreeSerif' font:
>
>  \override LyricText #'font-name = #"FreeSerif"

Which causes my problem, as far as I know.  Oh, I like CenturySchlbk
for lyrics, it's a real pity that things are not so straightforward
for my systems (both Ubuntu 10.04).  Where to start from about
fiddling against "callback fonts"?

Thanks, Werner and all!
-- 
Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain)
www.paconet.org , www.csmbadajoz.com