Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

[Simon Bailey]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:
> The problem (as Wernes said initially) is that you can't _ask_ LilyPond for
> it. Depending on your OS and font setup it just does it or not ...

where do i start debugging? this obviously works for other people.

OS: Fedora 20
lilypond: 2.17.97, installed using the tar.gz distributed file from
the lilypond.org website.
pango-1.36.1-1.fc20.x86_64
freetype-2.5.0-4.fc20.x86_64
fontconfig-2.11.0-1.fc20.x86_64

however, lilypond doesn't seem to be using these libraries on my
system, as ldd shows:

<<<
ldd ~/lilypond/usr/bin/lilypond

<...SNIP...>
libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 =>
/home/binabik/lilypond/usr/bin/../lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0
(0x00007f020c67e000)
libpango-1.0.so.0 =>
/home/binabik/lilypond/usr/bin/../lib/libpango-1.0.so.0
(0x00007f020c433000)
libfreetype.so.6 =>
/home/binabik/lilypond/usr/bin/../lib/libfreetype.so.6
(0x00007f020c1af000)
libfontconfig.so.1 =>
/home/binabik/lilypond/usr/bin/../lib/libfontconfig.so.1
(0x00007f020bf7b000)
<...SNIP...>

>>>

running ldconfig -p | grep fontconfig:
<<<
libfontconfig.so.1 (libc6,x86-64) => /lib64/libfontconfig.so.1
libfontconfig.so.1 (libc6) => /lib/libfontconfig.so.1
libfontconfig.so (libc6,x86-64) => /lib64/libfontconfig.so
>>>

Is this intentional? Would it change things if I were to use the
system version of these libraries?
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