Re: strange font change in Score.repeatCommands

[Wim van Dommelen]

On 23 Sep 2013, at 14:46 , David Kastrup wrote:

> Wim van Dommelen <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I'm trying to engrave a simple volta repeat with specific text on the
> > alternatives. In itself this works fine, I just copied the commands
> > from the notation manual. But in doing so I see strange font-change
> > for some (but not all !) of the characters in the text.
>
> There is no font change, I think: rather the text seems to use the
> dynamics font for some reason, and that font has a limited subset of
> letters just sufficient to typeset rsfz, mp and a few others.  So you
> get to see those letters in your texts, and the rest is take from some
> fallback generic font.

Somehow I intuitivily also came to that conclusion.........

> As a workaround, you can try replacing your strings with markups that
> also select a suitable font.

Yes, was already doing this while seeing the other emails passing by....

> Of course that is not meant to imply that this behavior is in any way
> desirable.

Indeed, I suggest we file this as a bug. I think we should select the  
default font used for plain texts here also as a default.

Regards,
Wim.


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