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How does lilypond choose fonts?


From: Frederick Bartlett
Subject: How does lilypond choose fonts?
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 09:14:56 -0500

Hi!

I'm using lilypond 2.14.1 under CygWin 2.7, and have a large number of fonts I've accumulated over the decades.

I have set up my lilypond files to use fonts I like in \paper:

  #(define fonts
    (make-pango-font-tree "Centaur MT"
                          "ITC Eras"
                          "Prestige Elite"
                           (/ myStaffSize 20)))

And this works exactly as expected, so long as I use standard ASCII characters. Once I add Cyrillic (e.g., "Был у Хри -- ста, мла -- ден -- ца сад,"), lilypond starts using Verdana.

I think I understand why -- the three old PFB fonts I selected don't support Unicode. But I can't figure out how lilypond figured out that it needed to override my font choice or how it chose the font it did (Verdana). I would like to convince lilypond to use Times New Roman or Garamond.

All clues gratefully received!
Thanks,
Fred



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