RE: Changing to Gonville font

[James Lowe]

Albert,

)-----Original Message-----
)From: Albert Frantz [mailto:address@hidden
)Sent: 02 August 2011 12:37
)To: James Lowe
)Cc: address@hidden
)Subject: Re: Changing to Gonville font
)Importance: Low
)
)> I'm happy to look at the instructions we give in the documentation
)about changing the font in general, but it wasn't clear (to me) what you
)thought we should change.
)
)Hi James,
)
)Thanks for your reply. There's an inaccuracy in the LilyPond manual:
)"Move" should be changed to "rename," since moving a folder means
)placing it inside of another one. The instructions should read:
)
)Rename the existing fonts directory to fonts_orig and rename the
)lilyfonts directory to fonts. Simply rename fonts_orig back to fonts to
)revert back to Feta.
)
)

I've looked at the documentation and I remember the conversation I had with our 
Doc Meister, normally you would do this (at least on Mac OS - which I used at 
the time) via a terminal and there is no 'rename' command, so when you 

mv folder_name new_folder_name 

you are actually 'moving' the directory in the traditional sense. As far as I 
am aware, your 'average' Mac OS user is not going to be able to use the Finder 
to browse inside the LilyPond.app (even though structurally it is a directory), 
at least in 10.6 when I used a Mac to be able to rename the directory in the 
usual way. So the assumption has always been that once a user is jumping into 
the cli then they would be expected to be comfortable with 'moving' a directory.

With Windows you could also do it this way via the cmd, but you can also use 
Windows Explorer to browse the LilyPond dir and use rename in this sense.

Windows users are more likely to do this I grant you. But as I wasn't using 
Windows when I did the original entry to this, we don't have a Windows (or a 
Linux) entry in this documentation.

So this is the reason we say 'move'.

James