Re: do narrow and bold-narrow font-series exist? How can i squish Lyrics horizontally?

[Alexander Kobel]

On 2011-01-10 22:01, Janek Warchoł wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> according to internals
> (http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/internals/lyrictext)
> there is something like "bold-narrow" font-series. However the
> following snippet doesn't work as expected - ?

Hi, Janek,

the point is that the default font Century Schoolbook (at least in the
free version shipped with LilyPond and usual Unices) just does not offer
a narrow face, so LilyPond (or Pango) falls back to the regular variant.
I don't know too many free fonts that do, with DejaVu Serif being a
notable exception.  And most others that come with a condensed variant,
like e.g. the Switzera (some free Helvetica clone from Arkandis) or
GoudyBookletter1911, don't support the 'narrow selection, but rather
have a special font name for the variant.
Unfortunately it's not currently possible to specify, say, #"Switzera
ADF" as 'sans 'regular, #"Switzera ADF Light Cd" as 'sans 'narrow, and
#"Switzera ADF Cd" as 'sans 'bold-narrow, and so on, when selection
fonts in the \paper block.  You get the point...


Cheers,
Alexander